[seul-edu] Need help with dying SCSI drive

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Subject: [seul-edu] Need help with dying SCSI drive

From: Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>

Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:17:33 -0600

Delivery-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 20:18:34 -0500

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Anybody,

The boot drive on my classroom server, /dev/sda, is in the process of dying. I put in a new /dev/sdd to transfer everything to, but don't know how to proceed. I was able to make a new swap partition on /dev/sdd1 with no trouble, but I don't know how to get an exact copy of the old /dev/sda8 (where /, /root, /etc, /var, and so forth are) onto the new /dev/sdc2 partition. After this is done, one of the drives in the new configuration will need to be made bootable. Is there an easy procedure to transfer everything on a partition to a new drive?

Thanks,