Fri, 03 Aug 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > SMART is saying that one of my hard drives is an accident waiting to > happen and that I should replace it. No worries there, as I have two > 160gb hard drives just sitting around in an unused box I was going to > cannibalize anyway. But it does have / and /home on it, so what would > be the best way to go about doing this? I think I have an IDE slot to > plug in the new drive, or at least I could temporarily replace my > CD or something. > > I assume I would want to use dd or something?
I came across 'Clonezilla' the other day, a wonderful tool. It lets you make clones of drives in mere minutes, copying only the used parts. It works with all the usual Linux filesystems, plus NTFS. You can also make images on servers running SSH, or on a dedicated Image drive, for archive purposes. There is a live cd with GParted and Clonezilla together, just the combo you need when a drive treatens to fail. Highly recommended. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
