[plug] upgrading hard drive

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sun Jun 9 10:41:36 WST 2002


On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:05, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> Currently I'm upgrading a system that has a 10G hdd and I want to change
> that to a 20G hdd.

Two suggestions:

 (1) use dump and restore'

 (2) add the 20G in, rather than replacing the 10G, by mounting it
     somewhere useful like /home

 (2a) shrink / and make a few more partitions like /tmp and /var
      with restricted mounts for better security and DoS protection.

Cheers; Leon



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