Re: [PLUG] upgrading system hard drives

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

Try this:

http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone

Lee

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> From: "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2012 10:42:50 AM
> Subject: [PLUG] upgrading system hard drives
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> I want to upgrade the hard drives on an older (5+ years) Red Hat
> server.
> 
> If I recall correctly, simply copying the contents of the existing 80
> Gig
> drive onto the new, larger, drive won't be sufficient for the system
> to
> be able to boot.
> 
> My thought is to do something like this:
> 
>  1. Install new HD, boot system.
>  2. Format and partition the new HD with ext2
>  3. Copy entire contents of each existing partition
>     onto the corresponding partition on the new HD.
>  4. Edit grub config file (if necessary) and then run grub.
>  5. Shutdown, remove old drive, and reboot.
> 
> Does that sound right?  I do this once or twice a decade so
> my memory gets a bit "hazy."
> 
> 
> Eric
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