Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. 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.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

I have a suspicion that the badblocks on the source drive is causing a
problem. When I used dd, I perhaps should have used the "noerror" option
then do xfs_repair.
Thanks, guys, I shall have another look.
Regards
Sid.
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