On 09/14/10 5:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with > sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > (after mounting the prospective new root partition). > Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab . > > Is that a sensible approach? > I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs volume. it copies everything exactly on an inode by inode basis.