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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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