My wife's computer which runs ubuntu "heron" made a funny sound today. I now think it must have come from the hard disk, which is quite old; the motherboard and cpu are fairly new, however. And just now the computer became unusable because it could no longer save any files. /var/log/syslog told about a disk error which resulted in the disk being remounted read-only. Restarting the computer caused an fsck, and now the machine works again, but it is clear that the disk is nearing the end of its life.
So tomorrow it's off to the computer shop to get a new hard disk. Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
