On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:12 +0100, 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? > If your partitions are LVM then you could just migrate them from drive to the other, exceptions of course would be /boot, non LVM swap. You would then also have to install grub on the new disk.