Karl Larsen wrote:
John Wendel wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old 160 GB
with a new one. What method would you suggest for putting all the
stuff on the old hard drive on this new one? It seems that dd could
do it but I wonder how fast it would be?
Any experience will be appreciated.
Do a little more shopping at newegg.com and save a few bucks
Seagate 250 GB $69 + free shipping
Hitachi 250 GB $59 + free shipping
OK John you have me hooked. I had forgot newegg and they are the best
for parts. I will order from them.
Now how to put this f7 on the new HD :-( I have had no help at all
so I will do it as I have in the past. I use cp=copy and the switches
-av >> file and that allows me to just let the copy happen and when over
read file and see what happened 8-)
I have done this more times than I needed to. Worked every time ;-)
cp -av should work, although I doubt if it takes care of the selinux
magic. If you want to minimize downtime on an active machine, do that
or an rsync -avH while the machine is still working, then when you are
ready to swap, drop to single user mode and repeat the rsync, adding the
--delete option. This will quickly update any changes since the first
copy, then you can swap the disks and reboot.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
