disaster recovery Q's

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Nov 13 20:10:02 UTC 2009


On Friday 13 November 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree?
>>>
>>> The resume partition (if you use one) is set in the initrd, I don't know
>>> what method it uses to define the partition (device name, UUID, label).
>>
>> I don't use one, Tim.  This machine never sleeps
>>
>> Next question that I don't recall seeing an answer go by in this
>> madhouse, (the machine is currently busier than a one legged man in an
>> ass-kicking contest, kmail even went away by itself a few minutes ago)
>> when the copying is all done using rsync -avcAX, ( I didn't have enough
>> space free to use dd) I presume that I'll need to do a "grub-install
>> /dev/sde", at least that is the plan.  Then fix the /etc/fstab file on
>> the new drive, power down, pull the sata0 cable and move the sata5 cable
>> to sata0, and it should then boot from this new drive.
>>
>> Have I missed anything?
>
>Don't do stuff like this on Friday the 13th.
>
That's mild, Bill, I have to spend the rest of the day staring at an urn with 
a long time employee's ashes in it.  Not my fav thing to do.

But, as you all know, I run the latest bleeding edge kernels here, so as soon 
as I got it running on the new drive last night, I built and installed 
2.6.32-rc7.

Now, I have no idea if it is the radeon/drm changes in the new kernel, or if 
its because the drive was well organized after copying everything over with 
rsync, but while glxgears is still its leisurely 270 fps, this machine feels 
about 10x snappier than it did, I mean the diff is extremely obvious.

-- 
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