Comments on: new hard drive http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » fun moving around directories http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-17722 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » fun moving around directories Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:45:15 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-17722 [...] Following John’s suggestion, I’m moving /home and /usr/local to the second drive, to smooth the upgrade. Fortunately, there’s not much in /usr/local, since I’d have to recompile binaries, but I figure even the presence of unusable binaries will serve as a helpful reminder. And, actually, the only thing I care about is ViewVC, which I believe is pure Python. [...] [...] Following John’s suggestion, I’m moving /home and /usr/local to the second drive, to smooth the upgrade. Fortunately, there’s not much in /usr/local, since I’d have to recompile binaries, but I figure even the presence of unusable binaries will serve as a helpful reminder. And, actually, the only thing I care about is ViewVC, which I believe is pure Python. [...]

]]> By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » pick my next distro http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-7093 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » pick my next distro Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:10:02 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-7093 [...] I’m currently running Fedora Core 5 on my home machine. FC6 is out; following a sage reader suggestion, I’m going to reinstall the OS (in a larger drive) rather than do a simple upgrade. [...] [...] I’m currently running Fedora Core 5 on my home machine. FC6 is out; following a sage reader suggestion, I’m going to reinstall the OS (in a larger drive) rather than do a simple upgrade. [...]

]]> By: david carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-6627 david carlton Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:51:39 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-6627 That's a good idea - maybe I'll try that. One other thing I was thinking about: right now, I have an 80GB disk and a 400GB disk in two disk slots in the machine. But I have a few more 400GB disks lying around. Now, I have no use for 800GB of storage. Having said that, if the disks are lying around, two of them might as well be in my machine. So it looks like I should migrate /home over to the second drive, as you suggest, along with whatever stuff I don't want to lose (I should do a survey of that; not a lot, but I don't want to miss anything), and then, the next time I feel like doing an OS install, replace the old first drive with one of the new larger ones. Which also raises the question: should I switch Linux distros? The next obvious transition point would be FC5 to FC6; I hope I'd be able to do that as an upgrade, but if I'm looking for an excuse to do a fresh install, that would be one. But all the cool kids these days are using something Debian-based, usually Ubuntu; maybe that's the way to go. That’s a good idea - maybe I’ll try that.

One other thing I was thinking about: right now, I have an 80GB disk and a 400GB disk in two disk slots in the machine. But I have a few more 400GB disks lying around. Now, I have no use for 800GB of storage. Having said that, if the disks are lying around, two of them might as well be in my machine.

So it looks like I should migrate /home over to the second drive, as you suggest, along with whatever stuff I don’t want to lose (I should do a survey of that; not a lot, but I don’t want to miss anything), and then, the next time I feel like doing an OS install, replace the old first drive with one of the new larger ones.

Which also raises the question: should I switch Linux distros? The next obvious transition point would be FC5 to FC6; I hope I’d be able to do that as an upgrade, but if I’m looking for an excuse to do a fresh install, that would be one. But all the cool kids these days are using something Debian-based, usually Ubuntu; maybe that’s the way to go.

]]> By: John Cowan http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-6614 John Cowan Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:43:32 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/10/new-hard-drive/#comment-6614 Whenever I have two volumes to play with (which is especially easy when they are VMware virtual disks), one is /home and /opt and /usr/local and the other is everything else. That way, I can upgrade the OS without messing with any of my own stuff. Whenever I have two volumes to play with (which is especially easy when they are VMware virtual disks), one is /home and /opt and /usr/local and the other is everything else. That way, I can upgrade the OS without messing with any of my own stuff.

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