[CentOS] Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?

[Maciej Żenczykowski]

Yes you should be able to without any major problems.
The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount
filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good 
thing as you'd likely have two filesystems with a "/" label (one on each 
disk), thus you'd probably first want to change all LABEL references in 
the /etc/fstab of the working system to normal /dev/hdX /dev/sdX device 
entries.  Afterwards everything should work no problem.  (assuming the new 
machine has kernel drivers for the filesystems you used on the old 
machine, which might be a problem - but the centosplus kernel has pretty 
much everything...)

Cheers,
MaZe.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:

> I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE).
> The machine went down and refuses to boot.
> I need to recover some data from one of the disks.
> Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need.
> Thanks in advance,
> Prasad
>