On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:08:13 Sam Clemens wrote:
JB2 wrote:
On Sat 05 April 08, JB2 wrote:
Hiya gang,
One of my hdd's has finally croaked (SMART said it was hardware....made all kinds of wacky noises too).
My main hdd is 80GB and an ide, the new drive is sata 160GB. I got the new drive to replace my main hdd, so I can move the old main one and make it my backup drive.
The new hdd is SATA. Will it mess anything up to have an SATA drive and an ide drive on my system like this?
Thanks for all the answers everyone! I feel comfortable about it now. As Felix said though in his post, trying to clone what I have now onto the new drive is a little too iffy for me, so it looks like I'll have to put /home on a DVD and start from scratch (the only reason I hate and dread doing it though is because with dial-up it all takes so darn long...oh well).
You can easily clone home:
$ su - # change to root password: # type root password $ cd /newhome # or where ever you want to copy /home to. $ (cd /home && tar cvSf - . ) | tar xvSf -
### Interpretation of the 4th line: # In a subshell: ## go to /home and then ## CREATE (c) a tape archive of /tar, #### be VERBOSE (v), optimize SPARSE files (s), #### and send the output to the file "-", which #### is an alias for standard output..
# take the output of that subshell, and pipe it # into the following command (which is being # executed in the original shell, which has ITS # current directory as /newhome): # ## EXTRACT (x) a tar archive, be Verbose (v), ## and optimize the storage of SPARSE files (s), ## reading from the file "-" (standard input, ## which in this case, is the pipe, which is ## the output of the other tar command which ## was executed in the /home directory).
I love how much you can learn on this list. I'm definitely filing this one away for future reference! Never know when I might need this... Thanks, Sam. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.