On 07/31/2010 02:18 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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. > I like that. Thanks. -- -- Steve -- 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
