Re: Replacing a HD

[frank mccormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

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Joe Hart wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> [snip]
>>>   I have had suggestions ranging from dd to pcopy and even rsync on
>>> mounted drives. Still not sure the way to go. But thanks to all for the
>>> suggestions.
> 
> You can expect that.  There are a multitude of ways to accomplish the
> same tasks, and people have preferences that are different than others.
>  If you don't know what you're doing, and don't know the commands, then
> I can see how it would be difficult to know which path of advice to
> take.  You have a choice, research the commands given and pick one, or
> blindly pick one and hope that it is good for you.

  I've been running various flavors of Linux for a couple of years...but
without some previous experience it's tough to know which way has the
best chances of no-problem success. I am told dd is slow...and can be
error prone..so I am leaning towards Pcopy.

> 
> I will add to your confusion and tell you another way.  You can use
> partimage to take a snapshot of a whole partition and then restore that
> snapshot to a new drive.


  I thought of this way but it **seemed** to simple :)

> 
> Now if I were you, I'd keep the old drive and use it as a slave so that
> you have even more space.  Good luck.


  Good idea - you can never have too much HD space :)


   Thanks


Cheers

Frank
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