[plug] Moving Running System to new HDD

[Cameron Patrick]

Patrick Coleman wrote:

> I realise it's not much help to you right now, but it might be a good
> idea to put LVM on the new drive so its easier to do this in future.
> Under LVM, you can install a new drive, migrate / to it, and remove
> the old drive in about four commands, and all without ever taking the
> system down (assuming you can hotswap hdds). Very neat stuff.

Incidentally, for those who are assuming that hotswap HDDs are exotic
and not seen in consumer hardware: just about every SATA controller in
existence supports hotswap, and Linux SATA hotswap is in the 'justworks'
category these days (at least with a recent-ish kernel; 2.6.15 seems to
work for me).

Cameron