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Duncan wrote:
> 
> What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and 
> the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help 
> next time).  

This is good advice in general.  If you have never used LVM look into
it.  Once your partitions are on LVM it is VERY easy to migrate them to
a new drive.  You can do it while the system is running as a matter of fact.

Ditto for raid.  I don't know that it is really essential in all cases,
but I've got a mythtv setup with the better part of 1TB of storage, so I
migrated it to software raid.  It isn't worth the money to come up with
an offsite backup solution for TV shows, but I'd rather not lose
everything if one of my multitude of hard drives fails either.  So I use
RAID5 to cover drive failures, and I do offsite backups of selected
files of higher value (a few GB).
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