-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wei Hu wrote: > I'm planning to replace my older disk (13G) with a larger/newer > hard disk (750G)
Wow, a 57.7x jump in capacity is pretty "significant". > and to maintain the machine as it is. what I > want are replace the old disk with the new disk including the > Debian (2.6.16) operating system and keep all the setups. > > Will it wok if I shutdown all daemons, copy all files to the new > disk, and make sure file permissions remain the same as the old > one? IMO, reinstalling from scratch will be less prone to errors, and will eliminate cruft that has built up over the years. If you retain the old drive as /dev/hd[bcd] (or even an external drive) then you can easily copy the relevant files (/etc, /home, /var, and so on). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmRb6S9HxQb37XmcRAlBqAKDrulssESzph+yW61vMlYkGe8c4FwCeN45I EmrMCAviiJ3wb+CK2NAwRVY= =NgYS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
