John R Pierce 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 generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs > volume. it copies everything exactly on an inode by inode basis. Thanks for the suggestion. Could you give a concrete command for copying / to say a new filesystem on /mnt/hd ? (I'm wondering how this approach deals with symbolic links, /dev , /proc , etc -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland