Hi Dave,
Yes go here: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
I did this yesterday from a 60 gig to a 120 gig. Worked flawlessly.
Used G4U to create image and resore image on larger drive, then used SRCD to
grow image on new drive. Worked well for me,
Phil
On Monday 16 April 2007 14:28, Dave wrote:
> 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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