ghost that sucka > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Joshua Gitlin > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] Replacing Hard Drive > > > Hey Eveyone, > > So I've given up on my problematic hard drive... Almost every > morning when > I check my server it's dead, complaining of IDE errors. I've replaced > everything else but the motherboard, and I've even switched > IDE channels on > the motherboard. So I've decided to replace my hard drive (30 > gigs) with a > 21 gig drive I have. My question is, after hooking the new > drive up and > formating it... what's next? I can't just use `cp -R` to copy > my existing > linux install over to the new drive, right? I mean, won't all my /dev > entries be lost? I can't use dd because the drives are > different sizes! And > I can't tar my entire disk because I have about 2o gigs of > stuff on there > now... where would I put the tar file? (Unless I can do `tar > -c / | tar -x > /tmp/newsystem` ?) How can I get my linux installation off my > current drive > and onto the new drive? DO I have to copy /etc and /var and just... > reinstall? I hope not... Is there another way? Thanks guys. > > -Josh > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
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