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[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> Fri, 03 Aug 2007, by jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
> 
>> SMART is saying that one of my hard drives is an accident waiting to
>> happen and that I should replace it. No worries there, as I have two
>> 160gb hard drives just sitting around in an unused box I was going to
>> cannibalize anyway. But it does have / and /home on it, so what would
>> be the best way to go about doing this? I think I have an IDE slot to
>> plug in the new drive, or at least I could temporarily replace my
>> CD or something.
>>
>> I assume I would want to use dd or something?
> 
> I came across 'Clonezilla' the other day, a wonderful tool.
> It lets you make clones of drives in mere minutes, copying only
> the used parts. It works with all the usual Linux filesystems, plus
> NTFS. You can also make images on servers running SSH, or on a
> dedicated Image drive, for archive purposes.
> There is a live cd with GParted and Clonezilla together, just
> the combo you need when a drive treatens to fail.
> 
> Highly recommended.

Funny - I just noticed Clonezilla today and am in the processing of trying
it out.

I tried gparted over the weekend, with its copying facility. The partition
stuff worked okay, but the copying seemed flaky. I'm going to try Clonezilla
tonight.

My SMART stopped complaining for a while, but it is back into its whining
mode. It probably has to do with the heat in my office. But all that means
is that the drive must be teetering on the edge of disaster, so better safe
than sorry.

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