-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -) []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCq0EtpdyWzQ5b5ckRAmWwAKCSxQJs0AEL0HASxlIXsEvD5iqDNwCgwGKr vwBEdEVAyMvN+nWeb5liYII= =DXE8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----