--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com> wrote:
From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com>
Subject: Best way to replace a drive with a clone
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 10:59 AM
According to the SMART stats, the
single drive in my Fedora server is
starting to fail. Rather than backup, do a clean
install, and rebuild,
I'd like to try to clone the existing drive to a new one,
then swap in
the new one.
What are the restrictions on doing this and the best way to
accomplish
it?
Best way is subjective :(, There is no "Best way", however there
are ways to do it :)
I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for
backup. Will that do
it?
Clonezilla will do it, provided that the new drive is the same size or bigger :)
The "bad thing" might be?, that Clonezilla also copies the "bad
sectors" of the original hard drive?, but I am not sure though :(
Or will a straight dd do it?
This could do it, but I would prefer Clonezilla :)
add new drive as PATA slave
/dev/sdb
dd -if /dev/sda -of /dev/sdb
remove /dev/sda
change the jumpers on /dev/sdb to
match what was /dev/sda
reboot
In the dd procedure, I'm not sure what to do if sdb is
larger than sda.
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-- Steve
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Regards,
Antonio