[CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Sat Mar 15 19:41:46 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:57 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 00:18 +0530, Truejack wrote:
> > We have a 1TB disk in one of our machines that needs to be moved to a
> > new server.
> >  
> > How can I do that without losing any of the data?
> 
> Shut down the first machine, unplug the drive, shut down the second
> machine, plug the drive in, start both machines, and change the software
> configurations as required (including /etc/fstab).

Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume
first, then import it on the target machine.

> <snip>

-- 
Bill




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