Hi all;
I recently installed SUSE 10 (the paid version) on a new IBM Z series (Z60m)
Thinkpad. The Thinkpad has an "ultra-bay" which is nothing more than a drive
bay where the cd/dvd drive is so I can remove the cd/dvd burner and insert
other devices. I have a hard drive adaptor bay that goes into this ultra-bay
drive.
Here's what I plan to do:
- remove the cd/dvd drive and insert the hard drive adaptor with an identical
drive as what is installed internally (SATA 100G drive)
- boot into single user mode (i.e. boot up and as root run 'init 1')
- use dd to make a backup of the entire internal drive onto the drive in the
ultra-bay
Here's my questions/concerns:
1) by pulling out the cd/dvd device and later re-inserting it do I risk any
issues due to fstab, hot swap/udev, etc?
2) I assume the command I need to run is 'dd if=/dev/SRC of=/dev/TARGET' but
I'm not sure what device my internal drive is. I assume the SRC is /dev/dsda
based on what I see from a df -h and an fdisk command. How do I a) ensure the
SRC is correct and b) figure out what the TARGET should be (see the df -h and
fdisk output below)
3) is this the best way to accomplish a true image of my drive?
Below is my 'df -h' output and the results of a print from an
'fdisk /dev/sda'. Thanks in advance for your help. (btw SUSE Rocks!)
kkempter@Issac $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 1.1G 351M 678M 35% /
tmpfs 1014M 12K 1014M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 788M 20M 729M 3% /boot
/dev/sda12 15G 5.5G 8.6G 39% /data
/dev/sda10 18G 1.1G 16G 7% /download
/dev/sda9 22G 13G 8.7G 59% /home
/dev/sda8 7.1G 2.7G 4.4G 38% /opt
/dev/sda11 9.1G 4.5G 4.6G 50% /stage
/dev/sda5 2.3G 1.5G 813M 65% /tmp
/dev/sda6 15G 6.8G 7.3G 49% /usr
/dev/sda7 5.1G 807M 4.3G 16% /var
root@Issac # fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 12161.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 275 2208906 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 276 406 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 407 508 819315 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 509 12161 93602722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 509 796 2313328+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 797 2624 14683378+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2625 3277 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 3278 4191 7341673+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 4192 6933 22025083+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 6934 9153 17832118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 9154 10328 9438156 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 10329 12161 14723541 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
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