Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-13 Thread Lukas Elsner
First of all I have to be sorry for this unprofessional overreaction and my unqualified comment. This really wasnt my week at all. I thought about what I said and recognized that this wasnt correct at all. I used my last hhd change to completely remerge my system and copy only the files I really

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-12 Thread Mick
On Thursday 08 Nov 2012 19:46:01 john wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:17:25 +0100 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 08.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread mindrunner
someone calls me stupid and dumb, because i am sharing my opinion. this never happened to me on a dev-mailinglist. I came here to help out gentoo users. not to flame war. If I want this kind of conversation, i would sign in to gulli board or some similar, but not gentoo-users. so I thought, we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:00:05PM +0100, mindrunner wrote: someone calls me stupid and dumb, because i am sharing my opinion. this never happened to me on a dev-mailinglist. I came here to help out gentoo users. not to flame war. If I want this kind of conversation, i would sign in to gulli

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:00 AM, mindrunner ker...@ccube.de wrote: someone calls me stupid and dumb, because i am sharing my opinion. this never happened to me on a dev-mailinglist. I came here to help out gentoo users. not to flame war. If I want this kind of conversation, i would sign in to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
121109 mindrunner wrote: On 11/08/2012 09:37 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 16:23:08 schrieb mindrunner: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. that is just stupid. You copy the fragmentation, the errors, the journal log and all the other crap

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:56:57AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Please, don't take Volker seriously as anyone who represents the basic discourse here. I black listed him a year ago but unfortunately his rudeness still leaks through. While he is technically capable, far more than me certainly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:00:35AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Don't worry re VAH : he writes like that, but there's no ill-will often he has something useful to say. Most of the time, Gentoo-User is polite + intelligent a good source of Linux education. In this case, as someone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you do not know me. everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average that one to 1/day. There are two ways to react if someone points out that

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you do not know me. everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Walters
On 11/9/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you do not know me. everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average that one to 1/day.

[gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread jdm
I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method? John D Maunder.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Can you connect both drives ate the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread jdm
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote : On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Srdjan Rakic
I used rsync for that. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:03:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Very good point. Use cp, rsync, tar or lvm tools, in fact anything but dd. -- Neil Bothwick Like an atheist in a grave: all dressed up and no place to go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread mindrunner
i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. On 11/08/2012 03:12 PM, Srdjan Rakic wrote: I used rsync for that. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. Even when the two devices have different block sizes? At

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread mindrunner
I never payed attention to this. all i know is that the alignment is correct. (checked with parted) On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread john
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:17:25 +0100 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 08.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 16:23:08 schrieb mindrunner: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. that is just stupid. You copy the fragmentation, the