Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:12 +0100, 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?

If your partitions are LVM then you could just migrate them from drive to the other, exceptions of course would be /boot, non LVM swap.

You would then also have to install grub on the new disk.