From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 18:17:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48AEC16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:17:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6AB43D39 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:17:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.232]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5B00KYJX8G9DE0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:12:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5B00HOAX8GCFG0@pd5mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:12:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I5B00C5DX8FJU@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:12:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i99ICFjY015430; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:12:15 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i99IBu32015429; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:11:56 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:11:56 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: Dean Hollister Message-id: <20041009181156.GA9508@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Hard Disk failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:17:35 -0000 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