On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:24:24AM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > 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? If you keep the partition names the same, you shouldn't have to change anything. Can you accomplish everything you are doing from a live boot CD? Then you can make it just the same. ////jerry > > > -- > Robert Arkiletian > Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >