New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:14:31 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> If you do a "cp" copy, be sure to copy contexts, permissions, and
>> ownership.
>>     
>
> One of the simplest ways to deal with this, especially if you have multiple
> users and the like, and assuming that you have sufficient free disk space, is
> to use tar to archive what you want, then copy that and un-tar it on the
> destination.
>
> I did that just the other day when I was moving an application server to a new
> machine.  Everything that I wanted to keep was in /opt and /home so I tarred up
> the whole works and copied it over and blammo!  Done deal, and back in service.
>
>   
    If the new hard drive is a SATO II and your motherboard is 5 years 
old your up a creek without a paddle. I need to call Newegg tomorrow 
first thing and stop my order. I can't use the 500 GB I ordered.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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