[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Doug Eubanks wrote:
> First, I am not a RedHat or linux newbie. I simply have not had to do what I am
> getting ready to do, and I want to see if I am going to run into a problems...
> My HDA drive is failing (I can hear the occasional click from it and I am
> seeing Smart errors, the transfer rate is slow but all my data is there). I
> have 3 partitions on it, the /, /boot/ and my game servers (this is also the
> drive the bootloader is on). Will this proceedure work ok to replace it with
> the minimum of downtime/reinstalling A> Make bootable floppy B> Start in single
> user mode C> Create same partition structure on hew drive D> Move all files
> from old partitions to new partitions E> Switch drives F> Boot off floppy,
> mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive G> Profit! Any hangups or
> snags doing it this way? Thanks, Doug Eubanks doug at simflex.com

I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup.

Something like:

mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot
dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -)

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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