Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-21 Thread Pigeon 
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:35:48PM -0800, nate wrote:
 Hanasaki JiJi said:
  is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and
  put it in another?
 
 
 sure. I've never seen a linux system damage a disk by itself. i've moved
 disks tons of times, never had a problem.

Just watch out in the case of systems which might run microfots as
well as linux. If the drive you've moved has any DOS/Windoze
partitions on it, don't access them from DOS/Windoze is the safest
rule.

Pigeon


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moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi 
is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and 
put it in another?

ide?
scsi?
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Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread nate 
Hanasaki JiJi said:
 is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and
 put it in another?


sure. I've never seen a linux system damage a disk by itself. i've moved
disks tons of times, never had a problem.

nate




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Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson 
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and 
| put it in another?

Just ensure that
1)  the other machine's hardware can handle the disk (naturally :-))
2)  the kernel of the other box supports the filesystem you used
on the disk (also quite natural :-))
3)  either the UIDs match, or else you are prepared to deal with
wacky file ownerships

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Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman 
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:49:44AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
 | is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and 
 | put it in another?
 
 Just ensure that
 1)  the other machine's hardware can handle the disk (naturally :-))
 2)  the kernel of the other box supports the filesystem you used
 on the disk (also quite natural :-))
 3)  either the UIDs match, or else you are prepared to deal with
 wacky file ownerships

2a) The partition table on the disk is supported by the kernel on
the other box (e.g. you move a disk from a sparc to hppa).

Probably not a big issue for most people :-)

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