On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:05:52PM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > >> I effectively have 1 drive /dev/sda (it's actually a hardware raid 10 array) >> >> I have lots of free sapce. I want to resize my partitions (boot, home, >> /) bigger. >> Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it >> on another box. >> >> Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions. >> Then restore images with Clonezilla. >> >> But I know UUID's will be wrong and I don't feel like creating new >> ones. I just want to use /dev/sdx > > ??? > >> >> Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf >> or is there anything else I need to edit? > > You might be better off using dump(8) and restore(8) to copy and > restore the disk partitions. Dump will preserve the information > you need and then restore will allow it to use the new larget > partition cleanly. Some of your other cloning software (I don't > know about Clonezilla) including dd(1) will try to duplicate the > space as it was on the old partitions and not use the new space. > So dump the partitions > redo the partitions > restore in to the new partitions > If you are changing root (/) and/or /boot you have to build a minimal > bootable system on it/them. But, really root and /boot do not need > to be very large if you put growing stuff in its own partitions > such as /home, /usr, /var. > Thanks for the advice. My initial question remains. Am I correct in assuming I only need to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf to boot from the new partitions? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada