[NTLUG:Discuss] How to move data from one drive to another

[Thomas Cameron]

> I find myself in the embarassing position of having bought too small a
> hard drive when I bought my computer a few months ago.  It's a Dell
> workstation running the Red Hat workstation distribution.  The drive is
> a 36 GB SCSI.   The SCSI card is U320.  I want to add another 72 GB drive.
>
> My naive thought is to install the 72 gig drive as the second drive, use
> dd to image the existing disk onto it, and then swap the drives.  Is the
> possible, or, if so, the best way to  go?

Why not just move your data to the drive and then mount the drive on /home
or wherever your data used to be?

Thomas