On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:44:19PM +0000, Manohar Pradhan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> If the Hard Drive is died, means I will need to replace. I have backup
> for the Data in that /www partition.
>
> Means when I replace new HDD, I will have to partition/format using
> fdisk /sda ?
>
> >From my partition info,
>
> /dev/sdb6 917072 732972 137516 84% /
> /dev/sda1 18820 5811 12037 33% /boot
> /dev/sda6 2218336 462492 1643156 22% /www
> /dev/sda5 5297560 418936 4609520 8% /home
> /dev/sda7 1210440 711516 437436 62% /software
> /dev/sdb1 5550188 50896 5217356 1% /usr
> /dev/sdb5 2016016 28572 1885032 1% /var
>
>
> My problematic HDD is /sda so if I replace this HDD, how can I boot as
> boot images are in /sda1 /boot partition. How can I copy this boot
> images to somewhere and make it work and what will be the process?
Plug in the new drive as well as the old one.
I assume the new drive will be /dev/sdc. And I assume you are running
RedHat 6.2 with LILO.
If you statically set the IDs on your disks, just make sure that the
new disk has a higher ID than the two others, then it will be /dev/sdc.
>
> I know if I reboot and replace the HDD, it will give problem while
> booting, any Idea to struggle with this?
# Create partitions on the new disk
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdc
# Create filesystems
mke2fs /dev/sdc1
mke2fs /dev/sdc5
mke2fs /dev/sdc6
mke2fs /dev/sdc7
# Mount new filesystems
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sdc5 /mnt/home
mkdir /mnt/www
mount /dev/sdc6 /mnt/www
mkdir /mnt/software
mount /dev/sdc7 /mnt/software
# Copy the boot filesystem
umask 0
tar cf - /boot | tar xCfp /mnt -
# Now, edit /etc/lilo.conf so that it
# contains something like:
boot=/dev/sdc
disk=0x80
map=/mnt/boot/map
# The boot and map lines are to be replaced, the
# disk line is to be inserted.
# Make the disk bootable - if this command
# complains, then I've overlooked something.
# Mail me back with the error message
lilo
# Now copy the other filesystems. Note, these
# copy commands may fail horribly when you run
# into the bad blocks !!! Don't worry, you have
# a backup...
tar cf - /home | tar xCfp /mnt -
tar cf - /www | tar xCfp /mnt -
tar cf - /software | tar xCfp /mnt -
# Now, your box may have died during the copying,
# or it may still be more or less alive. We
# don't care, it's time to lose the old drive.
# Now, power down, and unplug /dev/sda
# Move /dev/sdc so that it will be recognized as
# /dev/sda on boot.
That should be it ! (in theory at least)
You probably want to change back your lilo.conf, and
check the files you (possibly) copied from the broken
disk.
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