 | | | Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible? | Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible? 2005-06-23 - By John Vasileff
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On 6/23/05, Truejack <truejack@(protected)> wrote:
> Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need.
>
One thing to look out for is if your "good" machine is mounting
filesystems using labels. If so, adding the other machine's hard
drive may cause problems if it has filesystems with conflicting
labels. Inspect /etc/fstab and look for lines that start like this:
LABEL=/boot /boot ....
One way to avoid the potential for trouble is to change fstab to
reflect the /dev entry instead of the filesystem label. Use 'cat
/proc/mounts' to determine the actual device for /boot in the above
example, and change fstab to something like (if your /boot partition
is on /dev/sda1):
/dev/sda1 /boot .....
Be carefull or you may end up with two servers that won't boot...
John
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