Joel Gomberg wrote:
On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot,
> swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard
> drive, if the new drive is smaller?
>
> If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward
> way.
>
Tools like parted work better - they only copy the data on file
systems they know about. But they do not handle LVM yet. They can
only do a full copy - about like using dd to copy a partition.
> However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an
Intel 80 GB
> solid-state drive, just for fun...
Clonezilla worked like a charm for me, but I was going from a smaller
drive to a larger one. I believe that it can handle your situation.
It does not handle changing the size of LVM partitions. So you are
probably going to be stuck with resizing them first.
Mikkel
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