Am Sa, den 11.06.2005 schrieb Rodrigo Barbosa um 21:53: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Doug Eubanks wrote: > > First, I am not a RedHat or linux newbie. I simply have not had to do what I am > > getting ready to do, and I want to see if I am going to run into a problems... > > My HDA drive is failing (I can hear the occasional click from it and I am > > seeing Smart errors, the transfer rate is slow but all my data is there). I > > have 3 partitions on it, the /, /boot/ and my game servers (this is also the > > drive the bootloader is on). Will this proceedure work ok to replace it with > > the minimum of downtime/reinstalling A> Make bootable floppy B> Start in single > > user mode C> Create same partition structure on hew drive D> Move all files > > from old partitions to new partitions E> Switch drives F> Boot off floppy, > > mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive G> Profit! Any hangups or > > snags doing it this way? Thanks, Doug Eubanks doug@xxxxxxxxxxx > > I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup. > > Something like: > > mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot > dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -) > Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On the Fedora user list the question came up whether dump & restore are extended attributes aware. This is an issue i.e. when using SELinux. Do the tools take care? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 20:16:42 up 21 days, 18:54, load average: 0.40, 0.26, 0.20 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050614/667bfb4a/attachment.bin