On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:46 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:23 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > >> Smartd has reported that I have 7 uncorrectable > >> errors and it appears to be located in my swap > >> partition. Zeroing out the swap partition and > >> mkswap, failed to correct it. So it seems that > >> the drive after less than 1 year has gone bad. > >> Looks like I will have to RMA the drive as > >> it is still under a 5yr. warrantee. > >> > >> So, I bought a new drive and used gparted to > >> copy over all the partitions sans the swap > >> partition from the bad drive over to the new > >> drive. Everything is now copied over but I am > >> still in doubt of the new drive's MBR sector. > >> > >> Question: using gparted, does it also include > >> the boot sector MBR when copying over the > >> first partition or do I have manually copy the > >> boot sector over or to apply the grub-install? > >> > >> If so, what is the best way to ensure that the > >> MBR is on the new drive? > >> > > ---- > > I didn't realize gparted could copy partitions from one drive to another > > but the MBR is not in any partition but rather the first 446 bytes of > > the 512 bytes reserved in the boot blocks > > > > The best way is to have installer DVD/USB and boot into rescue mode, > > chroot to /mnt/sysimage and then simply run 'grub-install /dev/sda' > > > > Craig > > > Yes, gparted can do that; copy partitions from drive to drive. Very. very > handy program, especially when it exists on a LiveCD so that you can > work with unmounted filesystems. I use the Ubunto LiveCD to do this > as it does not exist on Fedora's LiveCD, but no big deal I think. The nice > thing is that it allows you to resize/move partitions around while you are > reorganizing a new drive. > > Question: Could I simply use dd to copy over the MBR from drive to drive > or is it too risky? ---- personally, I think it is too risky but it's your setup... dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=446 count=1 You asked what is the best way, I answered but apparently you don't like best way answers. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
