On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. > > > > Hi, xucaen. > > > > You don't have to reinstall the whole system just to add some disk > > capacity. Use lvm, or simply tar c | tar x a whole tree, or copy around > > -> resize a partition, whatever. > > > > wha..wha..what? so you're saying I can simple copy my whole entire drive (the old > one) > to the new drive if I wanted to?
Yap. You can even add the new drive capacity, to the old disk, so you'll end up with one big logical disk (lvm). HTH -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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