Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Is there a rescue disk for CentOS 4.4? The drives
are not similar in size, the new one is about twice as large.
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva at sgvwater.com>
To: <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: [CentOS] Re: moving CentOS to a larger disk
> Dave spake the following on 4/16/2007 10:03 AM:
>> Hello,
>> I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine has
>> a lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like and i'd
>> rather not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over settings
>> files. What i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the new disk,
>> make it bootable, then transfer the entire system over to it? I would
>> then pull out the failing drive set the new one to be master, and go on
>> with things?
>> Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much the
>> same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to have
>> the same success here.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
> I have done it in the past. It is much easier to do so from a rescue disk
> or
> the CentOS live cd, because copying from a system that is still running
> might
> not work the best.
> You can set up the partitioning on the new drive, and use your favorite
> poison
> to copy each partition. You can use rsync, cp -a, or tar, whichever you
> are
> comfortable with. If the drives are close in size, you can usually get
> away
> with dd, or G4L if you want something more visual.
>
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