From: Doug Eubanks
> My HDA drive is failing (I can hear the occasional click from it
> and I am seeing Smart errors,
The reason why I never build a system without a 3Ware card today.
> A> Make bootable floppy
Redundant.
> B> Start in single user mode
Typically a good idea, but you can do this with the original, and the new hard drive added.
> C> Create same partition structure on hew drive
Yes, although it doesn't have to be the same.
Just mount it all as you want under /newroot of the original.
Don't forget to watch out for duplicate filesystem labels,
and change your boot/fstab on the new.
> D> Move all files from old partitions to new partitions
for i in ?/ /boot/ /other/?: do
cd $i
find . -mount | cpio -pmdv /newroot$i
done
> E> Switch drives
> F> Boot off floppy, mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive
Or just use the distro's CD and rescue mode.
> G> Profit!
> Any hangups or snags doing it this way?
Only as mentioned above.
