Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:11:56 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard Disk failure Message-ID: <20041009181156.GA9508@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> References: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0600, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Dear All, > > A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail... > > One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr > filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to install a > new drive, partition it in an identical fashion to the faulty drive and > copy the filesystems across to the new drive and then boot from the new > drive? > > Is there a walkthrough on the best way to do this? > This sounds like what you're looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK I've never done this but it seems to be the traditional recommendation for this sort of thing. > Regards, > > d. -- Danny
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