Well, my new hard drive arrived, and I’m now fully migrated over to it. I followed Greenfly’s system migration tip followed by a cp -R /dev .

After coercing Knoppix to re-install Grub (the boot loader) I was all set. I’m currently repartitioning the old boot drive and pressing it into service as a media disk. If it just ends up being a hard drive problem, it will be minimized by the rare use and non-critical nature of that role.

Also, I’ve moved my blog to aragirn.net now. Everything is still accessible through blog.aragirn.net so you won’t need to update your bookmarks, RSS feed readers, etc.. I did have a little bit of a problem with links and redirects not working, but I’ve fixed that. If you run across something that should be working and isn’t, please let me know with a comment in this post. (If the comment system isn’t working, please send an email to: kyle.schneider [at] gmail.com)

So, as some of you may have noticed, my machine occasionally decides to die… I’m not too sure why, however it has these symptoms:

I’m using this as an excuse to buy a new drive (even though fsck says the partition is fine, and SMART reports no problems with the disk). Frankly, I’ve been wanting to buy a new drive and even if it isn’t the problem, I come out of it with 160 gigs more than I have now.

When it arrives, I’ll be taking the machine down to transition between hard drives (it should hopefully be a relatively painless process, but you never know. In any event, I’ll throw a post up the night before I do it, in case anyone has a dire need to visit some portion of my site.