Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use clonezilla is a live cd .

Gabe

On 9/14/10 8:12 AM, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net wrote:

Is there a document with instructions for this? I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).

I was thinking of copying the old root partition with sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd (after mounting the prospective new root partition). Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab .

Is that a sensible approach?