Re: Migrating to a new HD

2005-10-26 Thread Alexander Hall
Han Boetes wrote: It started with my HD failing to sync when I was rebooting. And some odd errormessages I saw. So I was holding my breath hoping for it to be something else or just an incident. DejC!-vC9. You are describing my laptop with its crappy Hitachi hard drive. But it only got worse.

Re: Migrating to a new HD

2005-10-26 Thread Han Boetes
Hannah Schroeter wrote: > I like a dump | restore combo, because dump is quite fast. Sounds interesting, I'll look into it. > I.e. partition the new disk similar to the old one (sizes may > vary as long as stuff will fit on the new disk). dump|restore > for every filesystem (partition) you have,

Re: Migrating to a new HD

2005-10-26 Thread steven mestdagh
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:42:04PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote: > Hi, > > I just wrote this article about migrating to a new HD after the > old one got too flakey. > > I maintain the original over here: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/hd-migration > > &

Re: Migrating to a new HD

2005-10-26 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:42:04PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote: >I just wrote this article about migrating to a new HD after the >old one got too flakey. >[...] I like a dump | restore combo, because dump is quite fast. I.e. partition the new disk similar to the old one (sizes ma

Migrating to a new HD

2005-10-26 Thread Han Boetes
Hi, I just wrote this article about migrating to a new HD after the old one got too flakey. I maintain the original over here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/hd-migration HD MIGRATION: It started with my HD failing to sync when I was rebooting. And some odd errormessages I saw. So I