On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > I have a CentOS 4.4 system where all of the main filesystems are on a > single hard drive. This drive is starting to give some errors, so > I got > a new (larger) drive to replace it with. What is the easiest way to > copy my filesystems over to the new drive? > > I considered using dd, but I lose the extra capacity of the new drive > that way. > > I tried using SystemImager, but it is giving me some errors. > > I think the easiest way may be to boot from the LiveCD, recreate the > partitions, copy the info with rsync and then fix the boot > partition and > grub. Any tips or pointers to a good how-to? > > -- > Bowie Here is what I recently did for a similar operation. 1) Download the system restore iso http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page 2) Boot into the sysrescue cd 3) Run partimage against your old disk to save the slices. 4) Partition your new disk as per your old disk (sfdisk -d /dev/disk1 | sfdisk /dev/disk2) 5) Use partimage to restore backups you just did to the new disk. 6) Remove old disk 7) Remove CD 8) Reboot Viola.. -ed- PS. You might need to fix grub if addressing for the new disk changed but there are smarter people to comment on that aspect.