[CentOS] EL6: Hard Disk upgrade howto?

Sat Jul 30 11:59:58 UTC 2011
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:45:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> I have a tested copy of EL6 that I would like to duplicate to a number of 
> similar servers, but can't seem to find a sane howto on the subject. TLDP's 
> "Hard disk upgrade howto" is embarrassingly antiquated: when's the last time 
> you saw LILO? 

*I* still use LILO, even with my CentOS 5.6 systems.

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> What's the recommended procedure for doing an HDD copy/upgrade from one disk 
> to another? Is there a nice, detailed howto that explains this in detail?

http://www.deepsoft.com/2009/01/how-to-transfer-a-linux-system-from-one-disk-to-another/

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> My set up is pretty straight forward. My partitions are all set up as simple 
> partitions, with UUID's in /etc/fstab. I'm not using LVM or RAID. 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> -Ben 
> 

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