Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Is there a rescue disk for CentOS 4.4? The drives
are not similar in size, the new one is about twice as large.
Thanks.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: moving CentOS to a larger disk
Dave spake the following on 4/16/2007 10:03 AM:
Hello,
I've got a CentOS 4.4 box that it's drive is dying. This machine has
a lot of customizations done to it, custom configs and the like and i'd
rather not have to do a full reinstall or manually copy over settings
files. What i'm wondering is is there a way i can set up the new disk,
make it bootable, then transfer the entire system over to it? I would
then pull out the failing drive set the new one to be master, and go on
with things?
Recently i've had to do this on a FreeBSD system for pretty much the
same reason, all data and settings went over fine and i'd like to have
the same success here.
Thanks.
Dave.
I have done it in the past. It is much easier to do so from a rescue disk
or
the CentOS live cd, because copying from a system that is still running
might
not work the best.
You can set up the partitioning on the new drive, and use your favorite
poison
to copy each partition. You can use rsync, cp -a, or tar, whichever you
are
comfortable with. If the drives are close in size, you can usually get
away
with dd, or G4L if you want something more visual.
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