[TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive

[Michael Hrivnak]

I've done this a number of times.  I like to use knoppix.  I partition
and format the new drive, and then for any non-swap partitions I mount
them on each drive and do:

cp -avx /mnt/old/* /mnt/new/*

Works like a charm.  Don't forget to run lilo on the new drive.

Michael

-----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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