My new Seagate 7200.8 250GB SATA drive came today! It took a trip home to grab a Molex to SATA power connector and four screws to get it properly installed. It took something like eight minutes to transfer the four Gigs of data from the old / to the new / partiton, and then another hour to transfer my data from the old /home to the new /home. It then took like four hours to figure out what exactly I needed to do to get lilo on the new drive properly. So, it’s working now (duh! from where do you think I am posting?), but I have one pretty big problem. I used the command time tar cflp - . | (cd /mnt/new_partition; tar xflp -) to copy the files. I found it some time ago from Usenet, before the bastardization of the interface by Google… :(. Anyway, check out the df:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             19998656   4254016  15744640  22% /
tmpfs                   257364         0    257364   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3            223074000  93303252 129770748  42% /home
/dev/sdb4            108998244  80562312  28435932  74% /mnt/sdb4
[tlg1466@argento /]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              20G  4.1G   16G  22% /
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3             213G   89G  124G  42% /home
/dev/sdb4             104G   77G   28G  74% /mnt/sdb4

Where the crap did those extra 12GB of data come from? This greatly disturbs me…
Just for kicks, I’ll give everybody the rest of the info about my drives:

[tlg1466@argento /]$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         125     1004031   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda2             126        2616    20008957+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2617       30401   223183012+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        2003     1009480+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sdb3            2004       21844     9999864   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4           21845      238216   109051488   83  Linux

[tlg1466@argento /]$ sudo xfs_info /dev/sda3
meta-data=/home                  isize=256    agcount=16, agsize=3487234 blks
         =                       sectsz=512
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=55795744, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=27244, version=1
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0
[tlg1466@argento /]$ sudo xfs_info /dev/sdb4
meta-data=/mnt/sdb4              isize=256    agcount=26, agsize=1048576 blks
         =                       sectsz=512
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=27262872, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=13311, version=1
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0