[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[Oliver Schulze L.]

Try copying before restarting Linux, via network or something.
I once saw a drive failing at my face after a restart :(

Good luck
Oliver


Doug Eubanks wrote:

> First, I am not a RedHat or linux newbie. I simply have not had to do 
> what I am getting ready to do, and I want to see if I am going to run 
> into a problems... My HDA drive is failing (I can hear the occasional 
> click from it and I am seeing Smart errors, the transfer rate is slow 
> but all my data is there). I have 3 partitions on it, the /, /boot/ 
> and my game servers (this is also the drive the bootloader is on). 
> Will this proceedure work ok to replace it with the minimum of 
> downtime/reinstalling A> Make bootable floppy B> Start in single user 
> mode C> Create same partition structure on hew drive D> Move all files 
> from old partitions to new partitions E> Switch drives F> Boot off 
> floppy, mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive G> Profit! 
> Any hangups or snags doing it this way? Thanks, Doug Eubanks 
> doug at simflex.com


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Oliver Schulze L.
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