On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:13:25AM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Hi,
My in-home server is at the end of it's tether, and I need to move to new hardware (motherboard, psu, case, fans etc) before the old one finally fails.
This is a very stupid question. Under windows, in days of old (win 95, 98, xp for instance), I've had some success in the past, with just transferring hard disks into the new machine, and then installing relevant drivers.
Would this work under linux? (I'm running xubuntu)
It *might* but personally I'd install a new OS on the target machine on a new disk and then add the old disk from the other machine. If /home is a separate partition then it's very easy to simply mount that as /home on the new machine and all of your personal configuration will work. All you have to do then is work out what you have changed (if anything) in the base OS.
I'm currently raided (Raid 1, 2 disks mirrored). Presumably I should do this again?
Personally I think RAID is just a nuisance which will make a disk failure more difficult to clear up than otherwise. Make sure important stuff is backed up (e.g. /home and /etc) and then just have 'ordinary' disks.
I have a / and a home partition. Again, should I stick with this?
Yes.