[TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive

[Jim Ray]

ghost that sucka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Joshua Gitlin
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:44 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive
> 
> 
> Hey Eveyone,
> 
> So I've given up on my problematic hard drive... Almost every 
> morning when 
> I check my server it's dead, complaining of IDE errors. I've replaced 
> everything else but the motherboard, and I've even switched 
> IDE channels on 
> the motherboard. So I've decided to replace my hard drive (30 
> gigs) with a 
> 21 gig drive I have. My question is, after hooking the new 
> drive up and 
> formating it... what's next? I can't just use `cp -R` to copy 
> my existing 
> linux install over to the new drive, right? I mean, won't all my /dev 
> entries be lost? I can't use dd because the drives are 
> different sizes! And 
> I can't tar my entire disk because I have about 2o gigs of 
> stuff on there 
> now... where would I put the tar file? (Unless I can do `tar 
> -c / | tar -x 
> /tmp/newsystem` ?) How can I get my linux installation off my 
> current drive 
> and onto the new drive? DO I have to copy /etc and /var and just... 
> reinstall? I hope not... Is there another way? Thanks guys.
> 
> -Josh
> 
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