Benjamin Franz: > > Is the following possible? > > > > - put the replacement drive into an empty bay > > - clone /dev/sda onto it like: /dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc > > /- move the new drive into the /dev/sda drive bay > > Only if you boot from a different disk. You can't use dd to make a good > copy of a mounted filesystem.
You can boot with the file system read only. Then it would be ok to use tthe file system you are copying. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
