i don't know how you've structured the data in your partitions. for example i keep all my personal data in /home=hda2
if i wish to migrate it, it simply a matter of putting a new disk in installing the os, mounting the old disk partition somewhere and copying the data. you could also do it via dd. brett On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:07, Kieran wrote: > Hi All, > > The machine I am currently sitting on has a hard drive that makes aweful grating >noises at random intervals (usually I hear once or twice a day, but it's up 24 hours >so there may be other times). This appears to happen more frequently now that I have >my squid cache and swap on the same disk. > > Anyway, to my question. How can I duplicate the old hard disk (which I know to have >atleast 2-3 areas which fail to read) onto a new one (free tools preferred)? Is it >worth attempting or should I just create a new install of Debian on the machine? :-). > > Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thx, > Kieran > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
