Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
> I know this has been discussed a million times on this list but old stupid 
> never paid much attention.So now that I am faced with this realiity of life 
> and computers, how do I proceed?
>
> Put in the new hard drive replacement, then what? Must be formatted, OK 
> that's 
> a no-brainer.  Must I partition it to match the old drive for rsync? 
> (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?
>
> Bob S 

Bob,

        Forget rsync, 'dd' is your friend here. The replacement can be as 
simple as
hooking your new drive up and doing "dd old new", remove old, reboot, done!
We'll call the new drive /dev/sdb for this example and /dev/sda the old, then
just hook your new driver up, then:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

        Let it finish, remove old drive, and reboot. Can't get much simpler.

        For your further reading pleasure (and more detail), see:
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html


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