Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 00:46, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I mis-read a post a few days ago indicating you were more of my age
> (74)...

Oh my word!

> Congrats on the girl!

Thank you. :-)

> I have to do with grandkids nowadays and they are  300 km and 6600 km away
> respectively. :(

Awww... :-(

> And with the Covid restrictions we have not been able to travel to the two in
> Michigan for over 2 years now.

Yes indeed... although a friend of mine from Sweden is visiting
Czechia right now. I had lunch with her yesterday in fact. And in 2
weeks I am taking my daughter to see her grandmother for the first
time since she was a baby.

> Tomorrow during some slack time for my server I will try to separate home and
> system on the current server (reboot using the USB Ubuntu 20.04 key) and see
> where that leads. I have just modified the scripts on two other Ubuntu machines
> I have so they no longer use the nfs share to this server when they download
> videos...

Good plan.

> Or maybe instead just bite the bullet and do the release upgrade first. I have
> done two recent rsync "backups" of the full system to an external drive and
> today I made another test by rsync-ing my home dir too with all the videos (they
> were excluded in the previous runs).

Sounds possible, certainly.

> One item more:
> After I have done the upgrade I will install a desktop (I like Mate) on the
> server system so I can use GParted and other GUI tools.
> It could be nice being able to log on to a desktop for that.

As you wish. I used to put a GUI on my servers, but configured only to
load with `startx` -- it was not loaded by default or at boot time.

Nowadays, I don't bother.

> Object Pascal and ANSI-C is what I have been doing software-wise over the years.
> But started out with ASM for the MC6802 CPU back in 1977 or so.

That's only about 5y before me. :-)

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