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Sanity Check on 60 -> 180 Upgrade?
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Posted by: rlcarr

Hello.

I have a 60hr Series 2 standalone. I have a 120GB drive on the way :).

My original plan was simply to make an image of the existing Tivo drive, verify the image using the new drive, and then simply do a mfsadd on the new drive. That way I'd keep all my recordings.

However, after reading the Hinsdale Howto closely and also reading the "sticky" MFSTool 2.0/swap thread at the top of this forum, I realized that would be Bad(tm) because I'd have too little swap.

My current plan is now as follows:
1) Make/verify test image using new drive.

2) Do the "piped backup/restore" with -s 127 to copy the existing
Tivo drive to the new 120GB drive. That way I'll get a 127MB swap
partition and have saved all my recordings.

3) Do mfsadd on the original Tivo drive.

Does that pass the sanity check?

Thanks!

Posted by: Robert S

Actually 180Gb is OK for a Series 2. Also, there is a 'rescue' maneuver you can do (third post of the Fixes thread) to temporarily increase swap if you get a stuck GSOD.

You run mfsadd on both drives, listing the new drive first to keep it as the A drive. I would let the new drive fill with recordings before adding the B drive.