[TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive

[Stephen Hoffman]

Boot to rescue mode (with both hard disks installed) mount both drives and
copy the whole drive over.  You'll have to recreate an MBR, but dont' to
that until you pull the bad drive.  Essentially you are ghosting it, but
you won't  need ghost.

Steve

>>
>>
>> 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
>>