[SlugLUG] When Bad Hard Drives Happen to Good Linuxes

[Peter Belew]

Hi -

On 10/2/06, Eric Carter <Ecnassianer at greenstorm.net> wrote:
> So my recent install of Ubuntu ended rather catastrophically. I came out of
> my room early in the morning to the sound of a very tiny sword coming out of
> a very tiny sheath over and over again. It was coming from my computer...
> from the drive I installed Ubuntu on.... my computer wouldn't wake up... I
> powered it off and went to work.
>
> When I got enough time to deal with the situation with the care and
> compassion that I desire my computers to be dealt with I found that the
> drive boots up and seems fine, but occasionally makes evil noises. The drive
> is on my desk, and I've had no indication of data failure. I'd like to
> salvage all the work I put into getting Ubuntu set up. A new (HUGE!) drive
> is on it's way. What's the easiest way to salvage my Ubuntu install when it
> arrives?

I would get ahold of a USB drive or another networked computer and
backup your home directory (-ies) and other data (including any
config files that were a lot of work to set up, and datbases) ASAP.

Then reinstall from scratch on the new drive, and restore your data.

I typically use a separate /home partition, on the theory that this
facilitates the future installation of a different distro, etc.

Peter
>
> Partition table looks something like this:
> ~1 Gig Swap
> ~29 Gigs EXT 3 Maps to: /
>
> Thanks in advance,
> EC
>
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