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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 2004 08:51:17 +0100
From:      Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hard Disk failure
Message-ID:  <41679875.7000503@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20041009135932.A9489@odyssey.apana.org.au>
References:  <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> <1d54d5440410082002a847a8f@mail.gmail.com> <20041009135932.A9489@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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Dean Hollister wrote:

> Yep, the kernel reports it cannot read a couple sectors at bootup.
>
> Is it just a case of fdisk'ing/label'ing the new drive with a standard 
> MBR, setting up the filesystems and copying to them. Then the new 
> drive should just boot normally?

Pretty much, i've done it a few times and never had a problem, tis also 
a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :)

Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like 
moved partitions or differing device names!

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Mike Woods
IT Technician



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