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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.

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