From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Idzoh-0000u0-Gv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:54:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l962hk1P032560; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:43:46 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l962hjoq032555 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:43:46 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so493932wra for ; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:43:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Pq2BqXdaNpne9ReTTsP+r0UW7qvUlymxbg56qbwMj5c=; b=EGzAIzkc4U6hEGn7uiZ21LdSnZRJINaidGaClf0Uz79JyAX3mBhuyaHcpv74p/rXA3U+K+7qBd1jSIpevT1sMSuoZnusIDuZwdgnqXLwRepxKxI3e4xPEHaJPLdnyHdnSiSnBNtwACdgJDunc//iRGs6BWfHQhykrxZByb/xyGo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rZwz8JLOPHUWEk8kWBe5jtUBGY5npK2IkyTa3Wv1+cR525dqhn+/fttX+TnRPSdPcNx5zwIYLsjuNX9dvZd68ZyCCZyLj5XDyYyK/S/nzt9wUi2w7ekfpuItQCt6HvCTbOq7e5hHwjwWRZIKJMmJKKErHtiXuk+egkUDUZxKzfs= Received: by 10.90.89.5 with SMTP id m5mr633900agb.1191638625549; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.49.7 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0710051943w4cd14241v795c599285891959@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:43:45 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive In-Reply-To: <4706F467.8040508@thefreemanclan.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0710051358g74f95702rb82a29219d890919@mail.gmail.com> <4706F467.8040508@thefreemanclan.net> X-Archives-Salt: 5dee0115-b682-4960-813c-5cda6d20e58b X-Archives-Hash: 1b61213485b8de0ec5d1d24c2e27e00c On 10/5/07, Richard Freeman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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). In my case I'm very noise sensitive. I do a lot of audio work and don't want additional hard drive noise in here. In my mind that rules out multi-drive RAID and I guess I don't see how any form of single-drive RAID helps if the issue is the drive doing bad. Probably I'm not aware of all the value of doing all of that work. Maybe there would be significant reliability gains but it's a subject that is pretty far beyond me today. I'm also has concerns that 1) the drive could go sooner than later causing me to have more work getting the system set up again and 2) if I do add some form of RAID that it will cause problems for the cloned Win XP installation being it isn't there now. And how does LVM work for Windows anyway? I thought that was a Linux thing? Maybe everything Duncan said is right, and I'll give it some thought, but my #1 worry is trying to make sure the system doesn't go down hard and leave me with a week's worth of work getting Humpty Dumpty back together again that I don't need right now. Thanks all, Mark -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list