Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-03-09 at 04:03 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
>
> > Problem, I have a xfs 1TB hard drive with badblocks (/dev/sda1) and
> > would like to clone it to another 1TB drive (/dev/sdc1), /dev/sdc is
> > already partitioned and mkfs.xfs run.
>
> With xfs you could use xfsdump and xfsrestore.
>
> > I've tried rsync, that didn't do it properly.
>
> Why not?
>
> > Next I copied all the data
> > across, but it gets confused on boot with the different namings in
> > /dev/disk/by-id/ and what was copied across in /etc/fstab and the stuff
> > in /etc/grub/.
>
> Well, those you will have to adjust manually, there is no way around it
> that I know of.
>
> > YaST in 11.2 Alpha0 doesn't now have an entry for cloning a system that
> > I can identify.
> > What's recommended?
>
> rsync.

I agree that rsync is the better way to go. I also agree that /etc/fstab
will need to be adjusted manually. Also make sure you set the proper
partition bootable.
Another copy method you could try is dd.
-- 
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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