On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 7:29:37 IDT Shlomo Solomon wrote: > The subject says it all. But a few more details. My 1Tb drive is > about to die and I'm moving to a new 3Tb drive. The drive > (/dev/sda) includes 5 partitions - / , /home , /boot/efi , /data , > swap. Most of the bad blocks seem to be in the /data partition. > Needless to say, I have good backups of everything on an external > drive. > > There are many ways to do this and I'm not looking for instructions, > but "opinions" about what would be most efficient. I've considered a > few options - but each seem to have advantages and dis-advantages: > > 1 - A fresh install and then update configurations and copy whatever > else I need from the old drive or from my backup drive. (Advantage - get > rid of old junk, Dis-advantage - seems like a lot of work) > > 2 - dd - and then, of course enlarge the partitions and/or add new > partitions to use the added 2Tb. (Advantage - safe, Dis-advantage - > there are many bad blocks on the old drive so ...)
Opinon Against DDing into a new disk, I had done that and apperntly that shorten the life of some SSDs (dd on disk level and not partiton level). In addition - I also had witnessed several (HDD) disks die when they had been connected over SATA to USB. beware of the cheap adaptors. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il