About a week ago, I discovered that my primary hard drive was starting to enter its death throws. I was consistently receiving I/O errors and in one case, I had to reboot the system and perform an fsck on the root file system to repair the errors. Fortunately, the system was stable enough for long enough that I was able to come up with a replacement drive.
Yesterday, I set about migrating everything to the new hard drive. FWIW, it’s a 500GB, 3Gb SATA Barracuda from Seagate. Searching around, I came up with 2 articles (here and here) to guide me a bit. The hard part ended up being getting GRUB2 installed properly.
I’m happy to report that I’ve got everything running. After the jump is the process I used. The advantage for this process is that everything is done from the shell. There is no need to separately run an install program on the new drive or to figure out esoteric grub commands. If that sounds good to you, then let’s proceed…