Hard Disk failure

[Danny MacMillan]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:07:27PM -0600, Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> A quick question, and I've searched the FAQ/Handbook to no avail...
> 
> One of the machines I maintain has developed bad sectors on it's /usr 
> filesystem. I can mount the filesystem R/O, so is it possible to install a 
> new drive, partition it in an identical fashion to the faulty drive and 
> copy the filesystems across to the new drive and then boot from the new 
> drive?
> 
> Is there a walkthrough on the best way to do this?
> 

This sounds like what you're looking for:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK

I've never done this but it seems to be the traditional recommendation for
this sort of thing.

> Regards,
> 
> d.

-- 
Danny