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Article #513[Aussie-sun] moving filesystems to new disk on Cobalt Raq4i
From: Craig Dewick
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 04:19
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 04:19
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Hi, Just wondering what the best methods are for moving filesystems off a defective (still works but giving hard errors on some sectors) 20 GB disk in a Raq4i onto a replacement disk? I've purchased a new 80 GB disk which is installed in the second position and currently don't have a restore CD so I'm wondering how to get the filesystems moved over to the new disk? The existing disk isn't reliable enough to run up the system with the httpd running otherwise there might be a way using the GUI to set up and start moving things to the new disk. Since the system is running Linux, is it possible to boot the system off an OS restore CD in single-user mode (via a SCSI CD-ROM drive connected to the external SCSI port of the Raq4i) and use a method similar to an ufsdump | ufsrestore pipe (which I use on Sun systems running Solaris) to move over the relevant filesystems to the new drive? Thanks for any advice you can provide. I'm used to Solaris methods but since the Raq is a hybrid system with IDE disks internally and SCSI externally, I don't quite know what the best approach is to salvage the filesystems from the old drive. Regards, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "cdewick@lios.apana.org.au". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".
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