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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org