On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:27:11 -0400, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Seems I have an ancient 8GB hard drive which is failing. At least smart seems to think so. New hard drive on it's way. All properly backed up to my external "back up" drive with rsync.
As it happens, I have an old system that's in the throes of dying today (hard locks about 10 times during the day), so I've been going through a similar process.
Must I partition it to match the old drive for rsync?
rsync doesn't care about partition sizes. As long as there's enough space to hold the data, it's fine. rsync doesn't know anything about drive geometries - it's file-centric.
(home,var, usr) are all separate partitions. (same size? larger?) Will rsync sort it all out? Is there a how-to / wiki page somewhere that can give some guidance?
rsync will not recreate partitions for you. It doesn't operate at that level. That also means, however, that if the drive that's failing is bootable, the replacement drive won't be when you restore. Is this the primary drive in a system, or is it just a data drive? Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org