Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:27:11 am 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.
Wow ! what a response. Hate replying to my own posts but there were so many 
replies I didn't know who to reply to.  Anyway, here is more info to avoid 
further speculation.

I have 3 internal drives (two IDE and one SATA) and run 4 different OS's The 
failing 8GB drive (sdb) has only one OS on it. My SuSE 11.1 testbed. I have 4 
partions on it. ( /, /home, /tmp, /var) and it fills the drive. I had to use 
the rescue function on the DVD to disable the /home and /tmp partitions to 
keep my computer running for the other OS's My menu.lst is on the 
11.1 /root/grub. (very worrisome, the failing drive) As stated previously it 
is backed up with rsync. Partitions are mounted by label and I do not use 
LVM.

The new drive is 160GB. (arriving soon I hope) I want to duplicate the 11.1 
testbed on to the new drive and use all of the remaining space for other 
uses. 

I could as suggested, disconnect my sda and plug in the new drive there and do 
a dd as David suggested. But, would dd copy over the "corruption"?      If so, 
could I then rsync and replace the "corrupted" portions and then use gparted 
to create more partitions after everything was copied over and working 
correctly?

Then again if I swap out the drive and do the gparted partition method, I will 
have to figure out how to tell rsync where to put what.

Thanks guys for all the suggestions and info. Any other comments would be 
welcome. I'll let you know what I did and how it turned out when the new 
drive arrives.

Bob S
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