[Sderby] Poser

Adam Armstrong lists at memetic.org
Mon May 28 20:44:41 BST 2007


> Monday, May 28, 2007, 1:48:59 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > The simplest solution is probably to pay £19.99 for the cheapest HDD
> on
> > ebuyer. You can then install a nice new Debian 4.0 system on it
> (setting
> > up LVM in the installer), copy over the website data, and swap the
> new
> > disk for the existing one. No resizing required.
> 
> Couldn't agree more, disk space is cheap, even at the high end. Having
> done or considered most of the options at some point, I can definitely
> say installing to a new disk and managing the migration is the way to
> go. Don't mess about with live partitions. If there's a problem with
> migrating to a new disk you have your old data intact as always was,
> and ready to roll.

Well that's not particularly carbon neutral, now is it?

You naughty consumer. Tsk.

Adam. 




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