[NTLUG:Discuss] Adding new hard drive

[Chris Cox]

MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> Regarding partitioning:
>
> I have spoken with a number of people in the past, and have yet to 
> find any compelling reason for having multiple partitions on a 
> system.  I am basically guessing, but I think the whole partitioning 
> thing was valid when drive sizes were measured in megs, not gigs.  I 
> just run one / partition on all our SGI and linux boxes (except the 
> ftp server), and have never had any problems.  You can easily run into 
> a brick wall if you set up partitions without a look into the future.
>
Partitions are evil... Logical Volumes are good.... Logical Volumes with 
a dynamically resizeable
file system is WONDERFUL (LVM+Reiserfs, for example).

Single logical volumes or single old-world partitions are great for 
client workstations, but absolutely
WRONG in a multi-user or server environment (unless reliability is not a 
concern).  I'm surprised
that you have not found any data to back my statement up though... this 
issue has been hashed
through many times online.

As for the original poster.... you should be able to copy the data off 
to the new drive mounted
as a slave or on a different controller (ide) or as a new drive on the 
SCSI chain (or different
channel if you have one).  Then you can use rdev to get the kernel in 
line with the new
arrangement and even put in a new lilo that allows you to either boot 
the drive where
it resides, or even plan for its eventual resting place should it 
supplant the original
root/boot.

I'm pretty sure there are some howto like docs out there for this (one 
that goes into
all of the steps).... google is your friend.

Regards,
Chris