New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> John Wendel wrote:
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>    I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard 
>>>> Drive for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old 
>>>> 160 GB with a new one. What method would you suggest for putting 
>>>> all the stuff on the old hard drive on this new one? It seems that 
>>>> dd could do it but I wonder how fast it would be?
>>>>
>>>>    Any experience will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do a little more shopping at newegg.com and save a few bucks
>>>
>>> Seagate 250 GB  $69 + free shipping
>>> Hitachi 250 GB  $59 + free shipping
>>>
>>>
>>    OK John you have me hooked. I had forgot newegg and they are the 
>> best for parts. I will order from them.
>>
>>    Now how to put this f7 on the new HD :-(    I have had no help at 
>> all so I will do it as I have in the past. I use cp=copy and the 
>> switches -av >> file and that allows me to just let the copy happen 
>> and when over read file and see what happened 8-)
>>
>>
>>    I have done this more times than I needed to. Worked every time ;-)
>
> cp -av should work, although I doubt if it takes care of the selinux 
> magic.   If you want to minimize downtime on an active machine, do 
> that or an rsync -avH while the machine is still working, then when 
> you are ready to swap, drop to single user mode and repeat the rsync, 
> adding the --delete option.  This will quickly update any changes 
> since the first copy, then you can swap the disks and reboot.
>
    I like the rsync method because it is really fast! I had an oops 
with the new hard drive. I learned what sata is and my motherboard is 
too old. But I bought a pci card that should solve that problem at the 
expense of $25.00 and be slow compared to real sata :-(



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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