>> My old hard drive in which is running slackware 10.0 is now so noisy
>> with high frequency. I now wanna move whole contents in the old to a
>> new harddisk. Please tell me your experience about that
>> much appreciated,

First, excellent idea to move your data. If it sounds bad, there is a high
likelihood of impending failure!

> 1) cpio the entire drive to the new one. Make sure the layout is the
> same, if /dev/Xa1 is the swap on the old drive, then it is the same on
> the new. 2) Boot up either by bootdisk or through the CD with the new
> drive on the same channel as the old
> 3) Mount the slice, and use chroot to set it to the root slice
> 4) Run lilo
>
> You may need to edit your fstab if you add or remove mount points and
> slices.

I would reiterate, make sure the physical layout looks the same after the
data transfer. i.e. hda should be replaced by hda (not hdb).

This also makes me wonder, because I have considered using LVM (Logical
Volume Management, for several physical disks)... am I correct in my
understanding that under LVM, the provided tools can be used to move the
data off the existing physical disk, and then back on to a new disk without
risking corruption in the process?

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Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/