On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:28:58AM -0300, Fabio Catunda scribbled in "Re: Hot disk change.": > Thanks for all responses. > > Now I see that I am in trouble. > > I really cannot install everything from zero, it will take too long and > might not work. > > I would like to know your opinion about the following procedure: > 1 - Shutdown > 2 - Remove both disks > 3 - Plug both 2TB new disks and create a new virtual disk on the controller > 4 - Plug one of the old 250GB disks in a separate SATA connector > 5 - dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda (where sdb is the old disk and sda is the > new virtual disk) > 6 - fstab, resize2fs, etc, etc...! > > I really don't know if the OS will recognize and be able to read the old > disk plugged in another SATA connector.
If you could somehow get the old HDD plugged into the same perc, as a seperate virtual disk, and do the "don't initialise" trick, then I'd replace point 5 with booting into a liveCD, creating your paritions, and rsyncing everything across. That's basically how I end up migrating systems, from old to new hardware, and I've done the same in the past, just not tried it with Dell systems or PERCs yet. Cheers. Dameon. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
