replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Shea Martin
My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb right now. My plan for migration is this: 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap partition. 2. from knoppix, cp -a the contents of /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. 3.

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:09:49AM +, Shea Martin wrote: My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb right now. My plan for migration is this: 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Shea Martin wrote: My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb right now. My plan for migration is this: 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap partition. 2. from knoppix,

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 power off .. than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should work as a replacement for hda Note that this will break if

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 power off .. than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should work as a