First of all thank you all for your speedy and helpful responses.
Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of the Linux Journals, but I may be able to find a
person who does.
Is the dd performed on a partition by partition basis using /dev/hda...(old disk
source) /dev/hdb...(new disk dest) ?
Oh... and it's an 8 GB disk. And I still didn't realise my mistake after I read this
response, I was actually thinking that
20 GB must be on the way out. Even my very first system back in 92 had a 120 MByte
Hard Disk !!!
It's worrying when a supposedly carefully written note contains mitsakes...
Regards,
Tej..
Regards,
Tej..
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Curley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 7:44 PM
To: Tejinder Singh
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [expert] Hard disk problems
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:16:46PM -0000, Tejinder Singh wrote:
> Dear reader(s),
>
> I have a machine running RH Linux. It's taken me a long time and numerous package
>downloads to set this up just so...
>
> The Linux machine now acts as an intranet server and provides access to the outside
>world for my other machines.
>
> Anyway, that's the background, now for the problem:
>
> Just lately I've started to notice a low frequency whirring sound when the machine
>is initially powered up. This remains
> for about a minute and then goes. I'm diagnosing this as the beginning of a failure
>of my hard disk, the one with all the
> Linux bits on it.
>
> Ideally I would find the following course of action least daunting:
>
> 1) Buy a new hard drive. The existing one is 8 MByte. I would like a larger ~20MByte
>replacement.
>
> 2) Duplicate the contents if the existing drive on the new one. The new one may have
>extra partitions if the partitions on
> it are exactly the same size as on the old disk.
>
> 3) Take out the old disk, or maybe even leave it in there as an extra disk and place
>the new one in as the main /dev/hda
> boot disk.
>
> 4) Power On the PC and the system comes up exactly as it used to before the noise
>started (with some extra disk space).
>
> Am I hoping for too much or is there a utility out there that can help me do this.
To see one way to rebuild your system, see my recent article on bare metal
restore at 79 Linux Journal 104.
What I want to know is how your 8 MB hard drive has lasted so long? I
don't know if you can get 20 MB hard drives any more. :-)
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