linux: changing partitions after install (and without losing data)?

[yanksfan]

does it matter what the /dev thing is? According to the fstab, the root partitoion (/) is /dev/sda1, and the swap is /dev/sda5. Does that help at all? So should I use /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda10 or something like that to represent the 2ns drive?

[redgore]

Right then sda is a scsi drive. If youve connected your new HDD to a scsi port youll need /dev/sdb Thats if its on the secoand scsi port.

[yanksfan]

ok, you said to replace all instances of 'reiserfs' with 'ext2' right? In the first part of your walk-thru, it says to type the command 'mkreiserfs /dev/hdb' to format the drive. So I typed in mkext2 /dev/sda2. I get mkext2: command not found....?

[redgore]

'mkext2fs /dev/sda2' is the correct command.