Re: replacing failing system disk

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Bryan Donlan wrote:

> On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
> 
> > or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ):
> >         dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448
> > 
> >         power off ..
> > 
> >         than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should
> >         work as a replacement for hda
> 
> Note that this will break if the new hdd is smaller than the old, and
> might break if it is a different size or has a different geometry.

note ... it only copies the mbr .. NOT the whole disk ..

nothing will break ... try it

c ya
alvin