[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive
Peter Farrow
peter at farrows.orgSat Jun 11 23:10:52 UTC 2005
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use G4U to clone it to an ftp server or second drive much easier Maciej Z.enczykowski wrote: >> 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! > > > well if you want a real quick'n'dirty way to do it then you can simply > turn off the computer, hook up the drive, boot with kernel command > line init=/bin/bash, watch the messages for info on what device name > the new drive got and do "/bin/dd if=/dev/hd{source} > of=/dev/hd{target} bs=1048576", once it completes do "/bin/sync" and > powerdown, remove the old disk and hook up the new disk in it's place > and reboot and usually everything works normally. [it does screw up > drive geometry but since linux uses LBA adressing anyway this is > irrelevant] > > if there are read errors on the source drive you'll probably want to > use dd_rescue instead of dd. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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