Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:09:24 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What's an easy way to replace a drive? Message-ID: <1735169762.20050324050924@wanadoo.fr>
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The continuing problems I'm having with my SATA drives seem to center on only one of the two drives, /dev/ad10, and since both drives are identical (Western Digital WD1200JD 120-GB SATA drives), this is a good indicator that the drive itself might be failing. So I've decided to spend $83 and buy a replacement drive to see if that fixes the problem. Now, what's the easiest way to replace the drive? The drive I want to replace contains only /var and /tmp. Are these mounted in single-user mode? I was thinking perhaps I can just replace the drive, set up identical slices on the new drive, then restore /var and /tmp from the latest backup. Can I restore from tape in single-user mode? I don't have any extra connectors to which I can attach this drive without removing one of the other drives, so I'm looking for a way to fix it up by just removing the old drive and putting in the new one, without the need to have both old and new drives online at the same time. -- Anthony
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