On Sunday, January 02, 2011 06:04:51 am Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
I didn't read any of the responses...
Assuming you had a default openSUSE installation and assuming that you did clone the disk properly, all you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab to reflect your new hard drive.
openSUSE for a while uses /dev/disk/by-id/ instead of e.g. /dev/sda. This is good and bad, you can move your disk to any other computer and it will boot but because /dev/disk/by-id/ contains your hard drive model and serial number if you clone the drive it will not boot until you update these two files.
Found this an interesting topic. Was already planning to clone my workhorse Suse 11.3 to another hd. Have a small additional question. I have several mounted partitions on this 11.3 and found out that if I start copying these mount points seem to be copied in total to the clone. E.g., I have my /home on a separate partition and would like to let point /home from the clone to this same /home. How could this be done with dd or midnight commander (my favorite) or rsync? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.37-rc8-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.4 (KDE 4.5.4) "release 9" 12:20pm up 20:56, 4 users, load average: 0.81, 0.97, 1.07 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org