| Mike Leone on 1 Mar 2004 02:57:04 -0000 |
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Aaron Mulder (ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu) had this to say on 02/27/04 at 23:35: > Don't forget to install a boot loader on hdb, or once you make it > hda, you won't be able to boot. Don't forget to turn off the mail server > for the duration. Make sure you apply the correct permissions to the new > /tmp (if the copy process doesn't do that itself). Don't forget to format > the new swap partition. You don't actually need to remove hdc; you can > keep it around for the extra space and/or backup of /var. Woke up Sat morning, to a screenful of "kernel panics" and "kernel could not dereference pointers" and a bunch of other similarly horrifying messages. And it would not boot, at all. So I ended up installing clean onto a different hard drive, and - luckily enough - was able to mount the old drive and copy off enough configuration files and mail spool, etc, to get me back up (witness this email :-). I did use that "pax" command and enough "chown -R/chgrp -R" commands, to copy files and recursively set owner info. So I am back up, at least for now. Next step is to pick up a CD-RW, and figure out a script to write out those configs and mail spools to a backup CD. Attachment:
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