[CentOS] Un Installing a hard drive in a Centos 5.1 box

[Karanbir Singh]

Pam Astor wrote:
> OK when you say livecd, do you mean the Centos 5.1 distro
> disks? I have a full set of them, a 7 disk set I got from Linux Central.
> Can I just boot off disk 1 from my set?

LiveCD as in the livecd:

eg :
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso

> ...or, if I left the install the way it is now, are there any dis advantages of leaving the file
> system the way it is - spread over two hard drives?

nope, just that if you loose one drive, you loose everything (
potentially ) on the entire filesystem

> Should just get another hard drive and back it up the way it is?
> Would ther be any problems with my backup if left the way it is?

Both those should be fine

> 
> Or ahould I just do a complete re install of the OS after backing up my data...
> 
> What do you reccomend -leave it as is, re configure it, or re install it?
> 

I'd recommend you spend the time in learning about lvm and resize the
filesystem down to one drive, LVM does take about 2 - 3 hours to work
out, but once you do work it out - its fantastic and something that
makes Linux really worthwhile :D

but that is my personal opinion, you should still do whatever you feel
like - it is, after all, a free world :D

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