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Upgrade Question
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Posted by: mwanning

I have a Phillips 212 that I upgraded about 18 months ago - which had a 22GB A drive. Just to show you have prices change, I decided to spend up to $150 for the upgrade and got a 60GB drive which I added as by B drive. Has worked great. But I want to improve my recording quality and time, so I have purchased a 120GB drive.

I want to replace the A drive with the 120GB and continue to use the 60GB as a B drive (for now). But I need to preserve my recordings - and increase the swap space since I have 180GB total.

It looks like the only choice I have is to copy A+B drive to a new single drive A system using the configuration #6 in Hinsdale How-To. This is the only method I find to preserve the recordings and increase the swap (-S 127). Then run option #1 to add a B drive using the old 60GB drive. I should not have to reformat the drive.

I am correct??

For the project planners in the group, that means:
1. Backup A+B
2. Copy A+B to new A
3. Install and test
4. Remove and add back the B
5. Install and test.

Posted by: Robert S

See the third post in the Fixes thread for a way to manually increase swap in these circumstances. It's a bit fiddly, but it'll be much quicker in terms of the copying time.