Hmm, well I don't really have a need for an NFS client considering the array controller has now made the data inaccessable anyhow.

New question. I want to move my OS from an 18 gb drive to a 9 gb drive. I can't add additional drives to the machine that contains the OS, but I can still spit an image out to another linux box via NFS. The system currently has three partitions that make up the OS, /boot, swap space and /. Would recreating the partition structure on a new drive in the other box, then use tar be best, or would dd somehow be useful?