Swapping out Linux Partition Drive inside Buffalo NAS box - Uhh help?

[dhahlen]

So a friend of mine wanted to swap out his 320gb drive for a larger 500gb drive.

I figure.. simple... pop open acronis or ghost - clone the drive, yada yada yada easy as pie.

FAIL!

Ok here is the dilemma - when I pop open acronis I see this.

Disk 1
Ext3: 167.xx GB
Swap File: 20mb
Linux: (forgot what went here, something like 200mb)
Linux Pri 0x83 No Partition 297gb

Disk2 (old drive)
Ext3: 19.xx MB
Swap File: 20mb
Linux: (forgot what went here, something like 200mb)
Linux Pri 0x83 No Partition 297gb

I need to expand Extended 3 onto the primary linux partition. However, you're dealing with primary/extended partitions.

I need to leave the 20mb of data on extended3. I figure I'd have to delete the partition, recreate two more partitions (a 50mb ext3, and a primary non-formatted partition with 167gb). I would then clone the data from the old back onto ext3, and then grow the 167gb back onto the primary partition. Just wonder if this is the way I should go about doing this.. or is there an easier way?

I probably confused the crap out of everyone....

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[unhappy_mage]

If you've got the original drive, why not just copy the small Linux partitions over first and see if it boots? Then worry about creating the large data partitions.

 

[dhahlen]

Not a bad idea.

'll copy over the two smaller partitions when I get home to see if it works. The drive hardware has it's own form of the linux os which should allow me to format the new drive

 

[dhahlen]

I can access it but it says the drive is unformatted (duh) - when I try to format it errors out. So.... it knows the drive is there but can't format it.. fun...

Maybe I should create another partition... heh

 

[dhahlen]

ugh...

Guess I need to install Linux on my usb thumb drive... fun fun fun

Probably the easiest way to do it, I was just being lazy....