Re: [Hampshire] Copying from one set of disks to another

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Copying from one set of disks to another
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 at 10:23:42PM +0000, Adam Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tomorrow I have the joy of moving one Red Hat EL3 box from one pair of disks
> (hw RAID mirror) to another pair.
>
> What else should I worry about?


What I had to worry about was the Linux 2.6 kernel from Knoppix created ext3
filesystem with features that the 2.4 kernel I have to use couldn't. I had
to debug the filesystems to remove the features, then fsck them, but
other than that it worked okay.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
    -- John Lennon