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Subject: Re: Hard Disk failure
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Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> writes:

> 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!

It's also worth pointing out that you really want to do the copy with
dump(8) and restore(8) to get file flags and special files copied
properly...