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Problem upgrading B drive
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Posted by: flyersfan

I'm having trouble upgrading an already upgraded S2 60-hr unit. I originally added an 80 gig drive and it worked well. I want to replace the 80 gig with a 120 gig, and used Upgrade Configuration #4 of Hinsdale's guide. I successfully copied the data from the 80 to the 120 using:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd bs=1024k
(hdc is the first B drive, hdd is the new B drive)

The new drive works fine and all the data seems to be intact. I tried expanding it by putting the A and B drive back in my PC and using:

mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
(hdc is the original A drive, hdd is the new B drive)

It says the drive is already expanded. I tried all sorts of variations with -x, -X, etc.

I'd rather not lose the shows that are already on the drive(s). Any thoughts? Please help.

Posted by: weaknees

Maybe you are out of partitions on the B drive? Have you upgraded before the 80?

Michael

Posted by: flyersfan

No, adding the 80 was my very first upgrade. The 80 (and now the 120) have only 3 or 4 partitions. I didn't write them down, but I could get a list of the partitions that flash by during the mfstools 2.0 cd boot sequence...

Posted by: flyersfan

I'm replying to myself in case someone else stumbles across the same issue later.

I could not preserve recordings during the upgrade process. I resorted to restoring from my backup and expanding all in one shot. I lost my recordings, but the upgrade was as smooth as expected. Since I made the backup moments before the restore, I didn't lose thumbs/SP/etc.

C'est la vie.