SMART detected imminent failure of the hard disk...

[(``-_-´´) -- Fernando]

Most of your user setting are on your home, so by saving it, and then
restoring all your user setting will be the same.
Other stuff like root settings, or crons, or even extra applications
will still be lost.
but you can run a:
#dpkg -l > ~Desktop/progr.txt
and have all the installed programs, so you can see it latter.

On 7/4/07, Michele Zarri <m.zarri at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... or in other words: "You are screwed"
>
> Hello,
>
> The hard disk of my dual boot (WinXP-Ubuntu) is about to die... I have
> managed to backup my /home (which luckily was on its own partition), but I
> still have three problems (plus many more I will discover eventually):
>
> 1. Thunderbird
> I have created a profile that I was sharing with the WinXP OS. Due to the
> sizes of the partitions the profile was is actually on the partition with
> Windows not in my /home. I would really, really like to be able to re-use on
> the new hard disk, and my question is:
> is it sufficient to save the profile on a DVD or should I export it or
> something else?
>
> 2. Program profiles
> I have set custom options in almost every program I use (e.g. pidgin,
> konqueror, OpenOffice.org, gimp, ...) so I have now on a DVD all these
> hidden directories that these programs have created.
> I would like to re-apply my settings on the new hard disk, so my question
> is:
> is it sufficient to re-install the programs and then overwrite the hidden
> directory they create with the ones I have saved on a DVD?
>
> 3. Gnome settings
> Desktop appearance, beryl settings, MIME type associations and so on...
> are they all in my /home or should I try to recover from the dying hard disk
> other directories?
>
> Of course if you could think of something else I should do that I have
> overlooked (wouldn't be a bit surprised) please send the suggestions this
> way!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michele
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