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Article #560[Aussie-sun] best way to move entire filesystems to a new disk?
From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:37
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:37
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Hi everyone, Under Solaris, what's the best way to move entire filesystems to a new disk? Jedi's main disk has failed again and it might be on the way out so if I can get it to work in an external case I want to move all the filesystems off the disk (it's a 73 GB SCSI drive) to another one. Is 'dd' the best way? Solaris has DiskSuite which I've never used but probably should check out - does it have a way to directly move filesystems between disks? The /, /var, /usr and /home partitions are on the affected disk. It ran fine for 3 days before giving problems again today which could well be heat-related though with the storms in the recent past the drive could have suffered other damage that's more insidious. Thanks, Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web --> "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email me at "cdewick@poison.lios.apana.org.au". Explore my public-domain Sun Microsystems technical data archive at "http://www.sunshack.org". Sun Micro enthusiasts/users webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".
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