Les Mikesell wrote:
On 9/14/10 7:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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
As someone else said, you do *NOT* copy /dev, /prov, or /sys - those are memory-only virtual filesystems. <snip>
Otherwise, 'rsync --one-file-system -aH source target' will work and will
<snip> Or, as we do at work, after mounting /dev/<newdisk/3 /mnt
rsync -HPavxz --exclude /mnt /. /mnt/.
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