Hi gang. Currently I'm running FC3 on a machine which has 2 hard drives. Both are 40gb. the first hd is the root /usr/local and /var partitions while the second one is all 40gb of /home. It appears that the hard drive is about to crash because I'm starting to get unreadable hda errors some give a sector it cannot read others say unknown errors. In any case the system is not acting right and the hdd is kind of old. So now to my question. If I get another 40gb hdd which I do have one of. Can I simply transfer the stuff from the one to the other either by using tar saving all permissions? Or should I reinstall the os on the new hdd and just redo all my settings. Right now the mail system I use is vpostmaster which is a combo of postgres for the mail, spam, user accounts, passwords, etc and it puts all it's maildir mail in /var/spool/vpostmaster. If I reinstall the whole os I can easily save that directory not losing mail but I'd have to recreate the accounts after reinstalling vpostmaster. I'm fine in doing this because if I needed to I could use another os or a new Fedora. But in case I do stick with FC3 will simply transferring all the hard drive stuff work? Thanks. -- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
