On 8/3/07, Eberhard Roloff
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
SMART is saying that one of my hard drives is an accident waiting to happen and that I should replace it. No worries there, as I have two 160gb hard drives just sitting around in an unused box I was going to cannibalize anyway. But it does have / and /home on it, so what would be the best way to go about doing this? I think I have an IDE slot to plug in the new drive, or at least I could temporarily replace my CD or something.
I assume I would want to use dd or something?
I use dd for this, assuming that the new drive is as big as or bigger than the old one. The resulting harddisk layout of course just mirrors the old disk so that you either will use the remaining space for something else or you will need to resize your partitions. For the latter parted/qtparted will be your friends ;-)
regards Eberhard
I too would use dd for this, but be sure to use the "conv=sync,noerror" argument. Otherwise if you do have a failed sector read the resulting copy will be garbage. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org