[ale] Hard Drive Upgrade

[Nick Lucent]

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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Bob Kruger wrote:

from the tips howto

(cd /source/directory && tar cf - . ) | (cd /dest/directory && tar xvfp -)

Ive used it probably 10 times w/o problems

Nick
> At 12:10 PM 11/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >	This was a question I came across myself.  I've got a live server that I
> >need to upgrade the root partition on, but don't want to take down the
> >server for any appreciable time.
> >
> >Please let me know as well.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Jay
> 
> I know that I am going to have to take the system down at least twice -
> once to install the new drive so it can be formatted/data transfer, and
> once to change over jumper settings to make it the master.
> 
> Fortunately, I have two day plant shutdown, so I can take the system off
> line to do this work.
> 
> Even with a hot swap system I have no idea how you could mount the root
> partition without at least one outtage.
> 
> Regards - Bob
> 

Voodoo Programming:  Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but
they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
everything.
- -- Karl Lehenbauer

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