Hello, I did this recently with a RHEL 5 laptop. The disk wasn't failing though. It was just smaller than I would have liked.
Left the old drive in place and put new drive in usb device that connects two sata drives, either laptop or desktop. The one we bought fits either type... What worked best for me was: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=100M because I was in a hurry and the new disk was 1 TB. Because I used lvm on that disk I had to do a bunch of stuff to "grow" everything to fill the new disk. But if you don't care about any extra space you might not need that last part. If you don't use lvm I think you can just use a gparted live DVD or live CD and increase your partiation sizes. Cheers, On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > The drive /dev/sda on which the kernel, root, and RHEL in general live is > slowly dying (based on smartctl). I have the replacement drive in hand. > > Is the following possible? > > - put the replacement drive into an empty bay > - clone /dev/sda onto it like: *dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc > *- move the new drive into the /dev/sda drive bay > > Or is there another preferable solution? > > Thank you, > > Mirko > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > >
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