So...after mulling this over more, I think my best bet is:
dd if=/dev/hda of=dev/hdc bs=446 count=1
Anyone?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Erich Newell <
erich.newell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a server that is remotely hosted and has a drive with over 48k
> hours on it (and still running strong)...my hosting company is
> providing a free replacement and I need to migrate everything over and
> have the system come back up gracefully without any physical
> interaction...other than one drive being stuck in the second drive bay
> temporarily and the original being taken out and replaced with the
> second drive when ready.
>
> Here's what I have:
>
> /dev/hda - 60GB old drive
> hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 78.45
> Pri/Log Free Space 1.04
> hda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1074.00
> hda3 Primary Linux ext3 58869.01
>
> /dev/hdc - 80GB new drive
> hdc1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 74.84
> hdc2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 511.97
> hdc3 Primary Linux ext3 79439.57
>
> /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 usrquota,grpquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
>
> By my thinking...I should be able to:
>
> mkdir /newdrive
> mkdir /newdrive/{boot,newroot}
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /newdrive/boot
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc3 /newdrive/newroot
>
> rsync -av / /newdrive/newroot
> rsync -av /boot /newdrive/boot
>
> grub
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> setup (hd1)
>
> and then shutdown, pull hdc and put it in hda and fire it up.
>
> What I'm uncertain of is the "setup (hd1)" bit....will this setup the
> boot field in some way such that it will not work?
>
> If the drives were the same, I'd feel comfortable using dd to simply
> copy over the MBR, but since they are not, I'm worried about wrecking
> my partition table.
>
>
> Thoughts and advice are urgently needed. Thanks!!!
>
> - Erich
>
> --
> "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes
> about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes
> through life."
>
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