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solaris copying disk to disk
Name: herbherb Date: January 31, 2004 at 15:41:21 Pacific OS: solaris 8 CPU/Ram: sparc
Comment:
I just had one of my harddrives in my solaris netra die. I want to buy a 36 gb harddrive to replace the 18gb that died. I was wondering if it is possible to copy my whole 18gb harddrive that is still running in the machine to the new 36 gb harddrive that i will install in there. I really don't want to mirror it because that would only allow me to work with 18gb. I want to copy it whole, so then I could switch boot devices and boot from the new drive with the same setup I had on the old drive and then have the full 36gb available. How would this be done and if it can't is there any other options close to what I need to do. Also if I copyied the whole drive over whole I have to reinstall my applications?
Create alias and boot thru this new drive. Hope this will work out
Regds Prakash
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Response Number 2
Name: herbherb Date: February 6, 2004 at 10:45:32 Pacific
Reply:
So using ufsdump, how would I first mount up the disk. Should I just pick a name and mount it under an existing directory and then ufsdump the / filesystem to that directory. Then unmount it, create the bootblock and point the boot device to that drive?
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