<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Please,<br><br>Help me with exchanging the harddrive of a running server with a bigger one!<br>It is practically impossible to repeat all tricks and installations again, there fore I want to clone the disk.<br>I have FC3 on 30 Gb disk and a new 200 Gb IDE disk. What did I do:<br><br>I unpluged the original 30Gb disk, pluged the 200 Gb instead and installed the same FC3 - minimal installation on it using anaconda defaults. <br>Then I put 30Gb as master and 200 as slave. Checked with fsdisk -l and saw the same partitions: 1-13 hda1 - bootable and 14-end hda2 - rest for the 30gb<br>and 1-13 hdb1 bootable and 14-end the second one for the 200gb<br>I mounted -t ext3 hdb2 one to /mnt/linux_backup/ and hdb1 to /mnt/linux_backup/boot<br>I copied with rsync everything except /mnt and /proc to /mnt/linux! _backup<br><br>Than I umplugged and exchanged slave master - it booted again the small disk although under the name /dev/hdb !<br>I unlugged the small one and than it didn't boot at all - only GRUB on the black screen.<br>I plugged back messed up with glub alittle bit and plug the new disk alone again.<br>This time Fedora starts but it stopps at the very beginning and writes things like:<br>cannot find Logical volumes <br>Kernel panic <br><br>It has something to do with the Vol00 system that is installed but I do not know what to do!<br>Please, can somebody help me because this server is important for us - we are biologists.<br><br>Thank you,<br>Stefan<br></div></div></body></html>