[Sderby] Poser

Peter Baker baker.p at gmail.com
Tue May 29 00:47:48 BST 2007


carbon what now?

On 28/05/07, Adam Armstrong <lists at memetic.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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