[Discuss] Multiple HDD setup in Linux

[Brian Burger]

My new HDD is up and running, pretty much according to my original plan.

It took me three installs of Ubuntu 8.04 to get everything right, but
that was my fault, not the distros - classic PEBKAC moments abounded.
I had the 120GB drive with all my files on it entirely unplugged, and
nothing at all on the 500GB, so it was playground time for a day or
so.

I´ve got the new 500GB set up with /boot, /, /swap and a big LVM space
with /home on it now; the old 120GB is mounted currently as sdb1 &
sdb2 while I rummage stuff off the old /home partition a bit at a
time. I keep remembering dotfiles I should keep - gnupg, ssh, that
sort of thing - so I´ll probably leave the old stuff intact until
sometime next week, when it´ll all be nuked and become part of the big
LVM /home.

Turns out the simplest way to move stuff from the old /home was to use
Ubuntu´s auto-mounting of partitions and Nautilus´ drag-and-drop file
management... sorry to dissapoint the command-line fans, but regular
file management on Linux no longer depends entirely on insanely
complex strings of text commands!

gparted off a LiveCD also handled nuking the old root partition on the
old drive so I didn´t have duelling grub setups on the two drives. I´m
pretty sure I´ll have to drop down to the command line again to roll
the freshly-reformatted 120GB drive into the LVM setup when the time
comes, but in the meantime, I´ll stick with GUI tools as much as I
can...

Now, to re-create some of the customizations of a three-year-old GNOME
desktop without three years worth of cruft cluttering everything up!

Thanks for all the feedback & help,

Brian