[nflug] Replacing Linux Disk Drives (Cloning?)

[Robert Wolfe]

Justin Bennett wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
>    I believe this was touched upon a little in some of the cloning 
> talk, but I have a 2U Dell Poweredge Running Redhat 3ES,  that has a 
> pair of Mirrored 72GB drives (only has 2 drive bays), I need to 
> replace these with a larger pair of drives (146GB) due to running out 
> of space. I am hoping to not have to reload and reconfigure the whole 
> box, but if I have to I can. Have you guys had any luck cloning like 
> this? What products have you used. In the past I have tar'd the whole 
> file system (minus /proc) to tape, loaded a fresh installation, and 
> tar'd back over the fresh installation with decent results but haven't 
> done this in years. The biggest issue I have is only having 2 drive 
> bays, and wanting a mirrored configuration, Normally I could build a 
> second logical pair, with the two new drives and do a Disk to Disk 
> with something like ghost, I can't really do that with only 2 drive bays.
>
> Thanks
> Justin

Justin, why not just migrate instead of clone/mirror?
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