Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

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

Per Jessen wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> David, that way Bob will end up with an exact copy of his old 8Gb drive,
> which is (probably) good/useful, but he'll also have no use for the
> remaining gigabytes - the new drive is likely to be 160G or bigger. 
>
> I think the process is more likely to be like this:
>
> Remove old harddive, install new harddrive, create partition(s) and
> filesystem(s), mount desired filesystem in desired place, rsync back
> content from external backup.  If the old drive was the boot drive,
> rerun grub or lilo.
>
>
> /Per

Agreed, that's why I provided the link. No idea how big new drive is, but the
link covered all considerations very well.

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