14 Sep
2010
14 Sep
'10
2:54 p.m.
John R Pierce 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 generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs volume. it copies everything exactly on an inode by inode basis.
Thanks for the suggestion. Could you give a concrete command for copying / to say a new filesystem on /mnt/hd ?
(I'm wondering how this approach deals with symbolic links, /dev , /proc , etc
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