Re: [PLUG] upgrading system hard drives

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Oh, excellent!  I had forgotten clonezilla.

Thanks
Eric

On 10/23/2012 12:48 PM, Lee H. Marzke wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone
> 
> Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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:
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> 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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