[ILUG] harddisk swap

[Conor Wynne]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 19:28, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What is the point of copying the MBR 
> if you then use LILO or grub-install to write it out again?
> 

Seconded.

Personally, I would use tar to create a backup of say /home & /etc some
of /var and do a fresh install on the new HDD. 

Then untar whatever is required to the new HDD and away you go. Simple
and quick. I did this when I couldn't decide which "server" my webmail
would run on. I had literally seconds of downtime, and naturally lost no
mail because of good ol mxbackup. 

Sorted.