Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:08:56PM -0400, 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 > > > I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup. > > Something like: > > mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot > dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -) > > []s why not just use Norton Ghost and ghost an image of the current drive to a new drive, boot with the CentOS rescue CD, reinstall grub and you're done! definitely the easiest way I can think of. -- Mark ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2, 10.0 & RHEL 4