14 Sep
2010
14 Sep
'10
2:26 p.m.
On 09/14/10 5:12 AM, Timothy Murphy 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?
I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs volume. it copies everything exactly on an inode by inode basis.