On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB
drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it:
[...]
So, what would be the easiest way to transfer everything from the old
drive to the new one?
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So far so good. Finally got around to actually installing the new drive
this morning, since the system was down anyway due to a power flicker on
account of the weather.
I used gparted to make 3 partitions on the new drive (which came up
as /dev/sdf due to sda through sdd being used by the card
On 2008-08-05 18:41, Shachar Or wrote:
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:55, Mumia W.. wrote:
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
1. the -x option.
man cp:
-x, --one-file-system
stay on this file system
man rsync
-x, --one-file-system don’t
On 2008-08-05 00:39, Scarletdown wrote:
So that being the case, I am guessing that the SATA drive will show up
in /dev as something other than hdd (hda is the current primary IDE, hdb
is the secondary (which will then become the primary after this is all
over), and hdc is the DVD-RW. So,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
On 2008-08-05 00:39, Scarletdown wrote:
So that being the case, I am guessing that the SATA drive will show up
sata's normally turn up as scsi devices so sda
in /dev as something other than hdd (hda is the current primary
From: Scarletdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB
drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 - /
/dev/hda5 - /tmp
/dev/hda6 - /root
/dev/hda7 - /opt
/dev/hda8 - /var
/dev/hda9 - /usr
On 08/04/2008 05:52 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I know nothing about what's on the MaxBlast CD, but I'm betting it's
Windows-only. Stick with rsync is my advice.
Rick
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
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On 2008-08-05 02:55, Mumia W.. wrote:
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
- It's more flexible (see man rsync).
- It works both locally and over network.
- On consecutive invocations, it only transfers the difference.
Therefore it is much, much faster, especially over
On 2008-08-05 15:35, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
There have been some good suggestions, but none that I would really
consider the Easy way. I don't know your level of experience, but for
me the Easy Way is the one that can be done by almost anyone without
tons of technical documentation.
Here is
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:55, Mumia W.. wrote:
On 08/04/2008 05:52 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I know nothing about what's on the MaxBlast CD, but I'm betting it's
Windows-only. Stick with rsync is my advice.
Rick
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
1. the -x
From: Johannes Wiedersich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?
On 2008-08-05 15:35, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
There have been some good suggestions, but none that I would really
consider the Easy way. I don't know your level of experience, but
for
me the Easy
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 20:33, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
Yes, I will agree that rsync is easy to do if you already know the
command and what it is capable of. It is indeed a very powerful tool.
However, for someone who doesn't already know the command it can be a
bit overwhelming. At least
On 08/05/2008 11:13 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
On 2008-08-05 02:55, Mumia W.. wrote:
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
[...]
For a one-time copy only, cp and rsync should take about the same amount
of time. rsync is more advanced for synchronizing directories (and
On 08/05/2008 11:41 AM, Shachar Or wrote:
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:55, Mumia W.. wrote:
I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a?
1. the -x option.
2. the ability to stop the transfer and resume.
3. the -P option.
4. the verbosity.
5. while using rsync, you are learning a
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB
drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 - /
/dev/hda5 - /tmp
/dev/hda6 - /root
/dev/hda7 - /opt
/dev/hda8 - /var
/dev/hda9 - /usr
/dev/hda10 - /workspace
So, what would be the easiest
On Monday 04 August 2008 21:52, Scarletdown wrote:
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB
drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 - /
/dev/hda5 - /tmp
/dev/hda6 - /root
/dev/hda7 - /opt
/dev/hda8 - /var
/dev/hda9 - /usr
On Aug 4, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Scarletdown wrote:
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new
500GB
drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 - /
/dev/hda5 - /tmp
/dev/hda6 - /root
/dev/hda7 - /opt
/dev/hda8 - /var
/dev/hda9 - /usr
/dev/hda10
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you can leave the old disk in the box for a while, start by
installing the new drive as hdb, partition it and mkfs the
filesystems -- all while booted to the old drive. Set up a bunch of
mount-points for the new partitions, e.g.:
On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Scarletdown wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you can leave the old disk in the box for a while, start by
installing the new drive as hdb, partition it and mkfs the
filesystems -- all while booted to the old drive. Set up a bunch of
On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Scarletdown wrote:
Also, the MaxBlast CD that came with the drive says that there is a
disk
cloning utility as well. Hopefully, this will work with ext3
partitions
and will copy the GRUB stuff over as well. (crossing fingers...)
I know nothing about what's
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:39, Scarletdown wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
If you can leave the old disk in the box for a while, start by
installing the new drive as hdb, partition it and mkfs the
filesystems -- all while booted to the old drive. Set up a
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