On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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). > > > > Here is an article I wrote about doing this: > > http://www.deepsoft.com/2009/01/how-to-transfer-a-linux-system-from-one-disk-to-another/ > As someone who came from FreeBSD, dump restore was always considered best there. Hoewver, I've heard (though not deeply investigated), that due to various things in the Linux kernel, dump restore isn't the best approach for Linux, and there will be metadata loss. DISCLAIMER--this isn't something I've really looked into, however last time I was going to do it, I saw enoughw warnings about it to make me look for another method. If Robert has been doing it successfully, then, chances are he's right. (Perhaps these changes in the Linux kernel are newer than the CentOS kernel.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6