On 04/27/2019 01:49 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
On Sat, 2019-04-27 at 13:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Yes, my question is as strange as the subject line ;o>
The hard drive on my old desktop is dying.
I've copied the /home partition to a flash drive.
I've a laptop with 3 separate configurations of Debian installed.
Each is optimized for different goals.
The fstab file of each references the same physical partition as
/home.
Ideally I want the most recent install to be able to "hot swap"
between
the the two "home partitions".
Alternatively would it be possible to chose between 2 different
fstab
files at boot time?
Is there a sane alternative?
TIA
So it's a desktop computer that your hard drive is dying on
and you have your laptop accessing your Desktop for it's home
partition?
Desktop dying from old age. Started using it when laptop went into shop
for repairs. Circumstances just encouraging me to switch one set of uses
back to laptop. All my machines have multiple Debian installs.
Configuration experiments are a hobby.
Can you replace the dying hard drive on your desktop
computer?
Yes.
How old is your desktop system?
~10+ years.
If it's modern enough
to support at least SATA I, you should be able to buy a new hard
drive. Anything pre SATA you are looking at a rebuilt PATA drive
or maybe a rebuilt SCSI drive or FIREWIRE drive depending on what
you have. Your most robust option may be to build a new computer,
unless the hard drive is easily replaced.
It was custom built by a local outfit whose primary business
hardware/software support for businesses. It's younger than it's age.
If the hard drive is easily replaced, make sure you have clonezilla
handy. If not easily replaced, look into a new desktop system.
Honestly, I'd go to freegeek for help.
<chuckle> It's been said that I'm "out beyond Escatada(sp?) even".
Try SW Missouri!
If a hard drive is dying, you need to get it repaired or replaced.
Replaced with larger drive(s)
... I don't understand why you
would even want to mount a dying hard drive on /home on a running Linux
system. You want to take a dying hard out of service before it takes
itself out of service for you.
That's part of the reason that there's an image on an external 1TB drive.
... In short, a full hardware
description of your desktop is needed to give you sane good advice.
I've years of experience. Just don't follow my own advice at times.
Thanks all.
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