I guess the other answer, is to use a drive imaging programme to burn the drive image to a cd, or simply get into the situation where you are able to clone the old drive to a new one. However, you did mention that there are some bad sectors. Marcel At 03:20 PM 11/06/2006, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hello, >To answer your question, most likely you can just use tar to backup the >system and then use it again on the new drive. Don't do this while the >system is running though or weird things will happen. There are two >cases when you won't be able to simply use tar: > >1. If you are using extended attributes/acl's on the filesystem, or >2. If you are using some sort of program that uses inode numbers for >accessing stuff. (mail system would be the culprit here if anything) > >In either case, you wanna use something like dump or xfsdump or similar >tools that will preserve that stuff. But most likely you can just tar >with the understanding that you may have to fix up your mail queue >afterwords. No matter how you do it, make sure to use a cd to do it. Do >not tar up or dump a running system. > >- -- >It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and >over. (History repeats itself) >Joseph C. Lininger >Oh alright, here's the *actual* signature... > >And so it came to pass that on Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Raul A. Gallegos said > > > 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. > > > > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > >iD8DBQFEi4vqJ6dqn0mqPbARAgLsAKCEQ4u9DsPGALk2GCiZDH4ajN5SoACgw6CV >FQLmSeOQ13VPPWaZMPHDq6c= >=Sjs1 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
