Re: Transferring system to new drive

[Gabriel Rosca <missnebun@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in
the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use
clonezilla is a live cd .

Gabe


On 9/14/10 8:12 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Is there a document with instructions for this?
> I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick,
> so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old).
> 
> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
> (after mounting the prospective new root partition).
> Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab .
> 
> Is that a sensible approach?


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