On 07/31/2010 08:16 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 07/31/2010 06:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> 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? I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for backup. Will that do >> it? >> >> Or will a straight dd do it? >> 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. > > You can resize the FS later to occupy the whole partition. > It's worth doing an fsck first. > > Alternatively, a recipe I always use to copy a partition is: > > cd /newfs > dump 0f - /oldfs | restore rf - BTW, you should either do this in single user mode or with the fs unmounted or readonly. > This duplicates all the files, but onto a clean new filesystem. > > Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
