Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

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On 10/08/2009 10:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist 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.

However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80
GB solid-state drive, just for fun...

I suspect a re-install might be easier.

- Mike

gparted (or qtparted) will do what you want. I don't remember if it
can resize the partitions as you copy them, but in the worst case you
can resize first then copy.

or you can use cp -a to copy over all necessary files and run
grub-install to restore the grub boot loader if it's installed in MBR
(default)

There is a potential problem when using partition resizing - it can mess
up the partition tables and render the drive unbootable - need to be
careful here, as it "bit me in the a.."!

FWIW,
Dan


Really?
I've never had gparted bite me in the ass like that. Happened a few times with PartitionMagic in the past, though.


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