truncated: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk Now: grub and mounting said disk

[Bruce Labitt]

Hi Jerry,

I'm clearly seeing the merit of your approach by now.  Next time, I 
think I'll do it that way.


Since I'm so deep into this (spent way too much time already), I'd like 
to complete the process. I've learned about gparted (how to use it 
successfully) and now hopefully grub.  Found the ppa for grub-customizer 
and installed it.


I see that grub was set up to have 0 seconds delay, so that it was not 
possible to intervene.  So it seems that the menu should both be made 
visible and the timeout set to 10 or more seconds, at least for now.  
Does that make sense?


Grub customizer seems to be referring to the active disk (which is not 
the one I want to change).  How do I get it to refer to the other disk?  
I will be doing a physical disk change, and still am holding up hopes to 
not screw up the known good disk.


Actually, sdc (it's actually changed, but let's keep it consistent for 
the whole thread) isn't mounted, and it seems I'm having issues mounting 
it correctly.


From "man mount", I see that if the device isn't in fstab, one does 
"mount /dev/sdc1 ..."  (I'm not sure what goes in ... )
However what is the dir that is referred to, on the host machine or on 
sdc1?  If I want full access to sdc1, I would do


$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 / (really sdb1 now, as seen below)

If I do this I get:

$ lsblk --fs
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4 6fb59d06-ec00-44f4-abcc-0da0f018be93 /
├─sda2
└─sda5 swap 616eaa19-299e-479b-8dcf-dfc36593f63a [SWAP]
sdb
├─sdb1 ext4 6fb59d06-ec00-44f4-abcc-0da0f018be93 / <--- this is the disk 
I attempted to mount

├─sdb2
└─sdb5 swap 38689ed0-1d07-416d-bd53-8dfb22554b3f
sdc
└─sdc1 ntfs A2DA53E7DA53B5EF
sr0
sdc and sdb have swapped.

Sorry for my confusion, but this stuff isn't obvious to me.  I seem to 
be missing a couple of idea that tie this all together.


I cannot see the drive show up in Files.  All I see is sda (boot disk) 
and sdc (a data disk).


How do I mount this disk?  It seems like this is a necessary step, is it 
not?
If I can't mount it, then how can I modify grub on it?  Or for that 
matter do a new system install on it.


For now, I have not made any changes in grub commander, and I have 
unmounted sdb1.


Wow, this has been messy so far, and compounded by my lack of expertise 
in the area.


Bruce

Sent from the very machine I'm trying to fix...

On 12/2/18 11:50 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Grub will still point to the old one.
The way I prefer to do it is to install a fresh os onto the new drive 
and copy /home and possibly /usr/local. But everyone has an individual 
setup. There is a grub utility, Grub Customizer. I use this when I set 
up triple boot.



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Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Jerry Feldman]

Grub will still point to the old one.
The way I prefer to do it is to install a fresh os onto the new drive and
copy /home and possibly /usr/local. But everyone has an individual setup.
There is a grub utility, Grub Customizer. I use this when I set up triple
boot.


Sent from Galaxy S9+

Jerry Feldman 
Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org
PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7


On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 11:44 AM Bruce Labitt  So after changing the boot order to boot from the new drive first, BIOS
> had to fall back to booting from the smaller (original) drive.  I had no
> warning or display, BIOS switched over "silently".
>
> What is the best way of diagnosing this and proceeding?  I presume
> something needs to be done to grub on the new disk.
>
> Since I had done a dd copy, wouldn't grub already be there?
>
>
> On 12/2/18 10:47 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>
> Thanks Dan!  That did the trick.  Doing it the way you suggested worked,
> vs. the way in the video (which did not work).
> Your way was simple and with no error.
>
> Thanks everyone for your help.
> Hopefully it will boot, and then I'll replace the disk in the laptop with
> this one.
>
> Bruce
>
> On 12/2/18 9:40 AM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
>
> Booting from sda should be fine. I just wanted to make sure you were not
> resizing from a live file system, which, while it can work sometimes, is
> problematic many times.
>
> The 1MiB at the end of the drive appears to be related to GPT. If you
> aren't using GPT, shouldn't be an issue. With a 1 TB drive, you don't need
> to use GPT, in any event, though you could choose to. I have also seen such
> fragments of unallocated space. which appear to have been created due to
> partition alignment issues. I have never needed to leave such space
> available. Your partitioning tool may leave such space available, again,
> due to alignment issues.
>
> On 12/2/2018 9:32 AM, Bruce.Labitt wrote:
>
> I'm booting on to sda, not sdc.  sda is a 240GB SSD.  sdc is not active
> and hasn't been mounted.  sdc is a 1TB drive.  When sdc is finally sorted
> out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop and install sdc
> (1T).  ( The bigger sdc drive probably will turn into sda! ).
>
> Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop via a
> USB3/SATA adapter.  I haven't opened up the laptop yet.
>
> If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do that as
> well.
>
> Thanks for the tips on gparted.
> Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive?  I'm reading
> conflicting requirements on this.
>
> I will try your suggestions and will report back.
>
> Sent from Blue 
> On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins  wrote:
>>
>> First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not from
>> booting off the new sdc, correct?
>>
>> I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking multiple
>> steps at once.
>> Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
>> Apply it and let it complete.
>> Then do the next step.
>> GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it doesn't. :-)
>>
>> Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
>> recreate it in its final position.
>> That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.
>>
>> These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
>> 1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
>> 2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
>> 3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
>> 4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at the
>> end.
>> 5. Apply step 4.
>> 6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
>> 7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
>> 8. Apply steps 6 & 7.
>>
>> On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was wrong.  Having
>> the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the device show up.
>>
>> OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything is
>> transferred, except for this email.
>>
>> Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
>> I followed a youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY
>>
>> Just to note, * sdc has never been mounted.  *
>>
>> The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part showing
>> how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off.  The error is as
>> follows:
>>
>> GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
>>
>> Libparted 3.2
>> *Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00( ERROR )
>>
>> calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *path: /dev/sdc2 (partition) start: 437226563 end: 500118191 size:
>> 62891629 (29.99 GiB)*
>> grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )
>>
>>
>>
>> *old start: 437226563 old end: 500118191 old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)*
>>
>>
>> *requested start: 437226563 requested end: 1953523711 requested 

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Bruce Labitt]

So after changing the boot order to boot from the new drive first, BIOS 
had to fall back to booting from the smaller (original) drive.  I had no 
warning or display, BIOS switched over "silently".


What is the best way of diagnosing this and proceeding?  I presume 
something needs to be done to grub on the new disk.


Since I had done a dd copy, wouldn't grub already be there?


On 12/2/18 10:47 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
Thanks Dan!  That did the trick. Doing it the way you suggested 
worked, vs. the way in the video (which did not work).

Your way was simple and with no error.

Thanks everyone for your help.
Hopefully it will boot, and then I'll replace the disk in the laptop 
with this one.


Bruce

On 12/2/18 9:40 AM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
Booting from sda should be fine. I just wanted to make sure you were 
not resizing from a live file system, which, while it can work 
sometimes, is problematic many times.


The 1MiB at the end of the drive appears to be related to GPT. If you 
aren't using GPT, shouldn't be an issue. With a 1 TB drive, you don't 
need to use GPT, in any event, though you could choose to. I have 
also seen such fragments of unallocated space. which appear to have 
been created due to partition alignment issues. I have never needed 
to leave such space available. Your partitioning tool may leave such 
space available, again, due to alignment issues.


On 12/2/2018 9:32 AM, Bruce.Labitt wrote:
I'm booting on to sda, not sdc.  sda is a 240GB SSD.  sdc is not 
active and hasn't been mounted.  sdc is a 1TB drive.  When sdc is 
finally sorted out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my 
laptop and install sdc (1T).  ( The bigger sdc drive probably will 
turn into sda! ).


Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop 
via a USB3/SATA adapter.  I haven't opened up the laptop yet.


If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do 
that as well.


Thanks for the tips on gparted.
Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive?  I'm reading 
conflicting requirements on this.


I will try your suggestions and will report back.

Sent from Blue 
On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins > wrote:


First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not
from booting off the new sdc, correct?

I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
multiple steps at once.
Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a
time.
Apply it and let it complete.
Then do the next step.
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it
doesn't. :-)

Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition,
just recreate it in its final position.
That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.

These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated
at the end.
5. Apply step 4.
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.

On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:

Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was
wrong. Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the
device show up.

OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but
everything is transferred, except for this email.

Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
I followed a youtube video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY

Just to note, *sdc has never been mounted. *

The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part
showing how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off.
The error is as follows:

GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2

*Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00(
ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )

/path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
start: 437226563
end: 500118191
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )

/old start: 437226563
old end: 500118191
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

/requested start: 437226563
requested end: 1953523711
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/

libparted messages( INFO )

/Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./



*Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to
29.99 GiB*



*Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to
29.99 GiB*



*Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB 

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Bruce Labitt]

Thanks Dan!  That did the trick.  Doing it the way you suggested worked, 
vs. the way in the video (which did not work).

Your way was simple and with no error.

Thanks everyone for your help.
Hopefully it will boot, and then I'll replace the disk in the laptop 
with this one.


Bruce

On 12/2/18 9:40 AM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
Booting from sda should be fine. I just wanted to make sure you were 
not resizing from a live file system, which, while it can work 
sometimes, is problematic many times.


The 1MiB at the end of the drive appears to be related to GPT. If you 
aren't using GPT, shouldn't be an issue. With a 1 TB drive, you don't 
need to use GPT, in any event, though you could choose to. I have also 
seen such fragments of unallocated space. which appear to have been 
created due to partition alignment issues. I have never needed to 
leave such space available. Your partitioning tool may leave such 
space available, again, due to alignment issues.


On 12/2/2018 9:32 AM, Bruce.Labitt wrote:
I'm booting on to sda, not sdc.  sda is a 240GB SSD.  sdc is not 
active and hasn't been mounted.  sdc is a 1TB drive.  When sdc is 
finally sorted out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop 
and install sdc (1T).  ( The bigger sdc drive probably will turn into 
sda! ).


Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop 
via a USB3/SATA adapter.  I haven't opened up the laptop yet.


If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do 
that as well.


Thanks for the tips on gparted.
Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive?  I'm reading 
conflicting requirements on this.


I will try your suggestions and will report back.

Sent from Blue 
On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins > wrote:


First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not
from booting off the new sdc, correct?

I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
multiple steps at once.
Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
Apply it and let it complete.
Then do the next step.
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it
doesn't. :-)

Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
recreate it in its final position.
That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.

These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at
the end.
5. Apply step 4.
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.

On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:

Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was
wrong.  Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the
device show up.

OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything
is transferred, except for this email.

Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
I followed a youtube video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY

Just to note, *sdc has never been mounted. *

The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part
showing how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off. 
The error is as follows:

GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2

*Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00(
ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )

/path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
start: 437226563
end: 500118191
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )

/old start: 437226563
old end: 500118191
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

/requested start: 437226563
requested end: 1953523711
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/

libparted messages( INFO )

/Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./



*Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99
GiB*



*Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to
29.99 GiB*



*Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB*



/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended  208.48 GiB
/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition                  29.99 GiB
/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and
was inside the extended partition
unallocated was 693.04 GiB

Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.

Can you give me a hint 

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Dan Jenkins]

Booting from sda should be fine. I just wanted to make sure you were not 
resizing from a live file system, which, while it can work sometimes, is 
problematic many times.


The 1MiB at the end of the drive appears to be related to GPT. If you 
aren't using GPT, shouldn't be an issue. With a 1 TB drive, you don't 
need to use GPT, in any event, though you could choose to. I have also 
seen such fragments of unallocated space. which appear to have been 
created due to partition alignment issues. I have never needed to leave 
such space available. Your partitioning tool may leave such space 
available, again, due to alignment issues.


On 12/2/2018 9:32 AM, Bruce.Labitt wrote:
I'm booting on to sda, not sdc.  sda is a 240GB SSD.  sdc is not 
active and hasn't been mounted.  sdc is a 1TB drive.  When sdc is 
finally sorted out, I will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop 
and install sdc (1T).  ( The bigger sdc drive probably will turn into 
sda! ).


Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop 
via a USB3/SATA adapter.  I haven't opened up the laptop yet.


If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do that 
as well.


Thanks for the tips on gparted.
Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive?  I'm reading 
conflicting requirements on this.


I will try your suggestions and will report back.

Sent from Blue 
On Dec 2, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins > wrote:


First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not
from booting off the new sdc, correct?

I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
multiple steps at once.
Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
Apply it and let it complete.
Then do the next step.
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it
doesn't. :-)

Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
recreate it in its final position.
That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.

These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at
the end.
5. Apply step 4.
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.

On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:

Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was
wrong.  Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the
device show up.

OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything
is transferred, except for this email.

Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
I followed a youtube video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY

Just to note, *sdc has never been mounted. *

The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part
showing how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off. 
The error is as follows:

GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2

*Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )

/path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
start: 437226563
end: 500118191
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )

/old start: 437226563
old end: 500118191
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

/requested start: 437226563
requested end: 1953523711
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/

libparted messages( INFO )

/Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./



*Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99
GiB*



*Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to
29.99 GiB*



*Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB*



/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended  208.48 GiB
/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition                  29.99 GiB
/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and
was inside the extended partition
unallocated was 693.04 GiB

Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.

Can you give me a hint what went wrong?  I'm kind of surprised
that it failed, essentially in the first step, growing the
extended partition after turning linux-swap off.

The problem might be that gparted still has a problem with
leaving 1MiB at the end for the duplicate boot information.  I
found a comment in 2017 for gparted:
  

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Bruce.Labitt]

I'm booting on to sda, not sdc.  sda is a 240GB SSD.  sdc is not active and 
hasn't been mounted.  sdc is a 1TB drive.  When sdc is finally sorted out, I 
will physically remove sda (240) from my laptop and install sdc (1T).  ( The 
bigger sdc drive probably will turn into sda! ).

Just to make this explicit, the sdc drive is connected to the laptop via a 
USB3/SATA adapter.  I haven't opened up the laptop yet.

If you think I should boot from a USB Ubuntu flash drive I can do that as well.

Thanks for the tips on gparted. 
Do I need to allocate 1MiB at the end of the drive?  I'm reading conflicting 
requirements on this.

I will try your suggestions and will report back.

⁣Sent from Blue ​

On Dec 2, 2018, 8:42 AM, at 8:42 AM, Dan Jenkins  wrote:
>First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not from
>booting off the new sdc, correct?
>
>I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking
>multiple steps at once.
>Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
>Apply it and let it complete.
>Then do the next step.
>GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it doesn't.
>:-)
>
>Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just
>recreate it in its final position.
>That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.
>
>These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
>1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
>2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
>3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
>4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at the
>end.
>5. Apply step 4.
>6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
>7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
>8. Apply steps 6 & 7.
>
>On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
>> Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was wrong. 
>> Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the device show
>up.
>>
>> OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything is
>> transferred, except for this email.
>>
>> Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
>> I followed a youtube video at
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY
>>
>> Just to note,*sdc has never been mounted. *
>>
>> The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part
>> showing how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off.  The
>> error is as follows:
>>
>> GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
>>
>> Libparted 3.2
>>
>> *Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00( ERROR )
>>
>> calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )
>>
>> /path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
>> start: 437226563
>> end: 500118191
>> size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/
>>
>> grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )
>> 
>> /old start: 437226563
>> old end: 500118191
>> old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/
>>
>> /requested start: 437226563
>> requested end: 1953523711
>> requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/
>>
>> libparted messages( INFO )
>>
>> /Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./
>>
>> 
>>
>> *Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99 GiB*
>>
>> 
>>
>> *Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to 29.99
>GiB*
>>
>> 
>>
>> *Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB*
>>
>> 
>>
>> /dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended  208.48 GiB
>> /dev/sdc2 is the extended partition                  29.99 GiB
>> /dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and was
>> inside the extended partition
>> unallocated was 
>> 693.04 GiB
>>
>> Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.
>>
>> Can you give me a hint what went wrong?  I'm kind of surprised that
>it
>> failed, essentially in the first step, growing the extended partition
>
>> after turning linux-swap off.
>>
>> The problem might be that gparted still has a problem with leaving
>> 1MiB at the end for the duplicate boot information.  I found a
>comment
>> in 2017 for gparted:
>> http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646
>>
>> And: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144
>>
>> Is there a practical work around to my reported error?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>> On 12/1/18 4:39 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
>>> On some of the BIOSes, unless you have the USB drive connected,
>before
>>> you go into the BIOS, it will not appear as a boot option.
>>>
>>> Also, depending on the USB flash drive model, it may appear:
>>> 1) as a removable device (aka a floppy drive),
>>> 2) a hard drive (appearing as second choice under hard disk drives;
>>>      you would need to change the 1st drive to USB and the 2nd drive
>to
>>> your current boot drive), or
>>> 3) as a CDROM drive.
>>>
>>> Also, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you may need to switch it to 

Re: Recommendations on cloning a bootable main disk

[Dan Jenkins]

First, you are running GParted from a bootable flash drive, not from 
booting off the new sdc, correct?


I have had issues, in a few instances, with GParted, when taking 
multiple steps at once.

Rather than do all the steps at once, I would do one step at a time.
Apply it and let it complete.
Then do the next step.
GParted often works fine with multiple steps, except when it doesn't. :-)

Further, you don't actually need to move the swap partition, just 
recreate it in its final position.

That would save time, but doesn't explain the error.

These are the steps I would use, if I was doing it:
1. Delete the swap partition (sdc5)
2. Delete the extended partition (sdc2)
3. Apply steps 1 & 2.
4. Resize the data partition (sdc1), leaving 30 GB unallocated at the end.
5. Apply step 4.
6. Create an extended partition in that 30 GB unallocated space.
7. Create a 30 GB swap partition in that new extended partition.
8. Apply steps 6 & 7.

On 12/1/2018 9:05 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
Thanks for the instructions on the BIOS - umm, nothing was wrong.  
Having the USB stick prior to entering the BIOS made the device show up.


OK, dd'd the disk.  Took a long time, 94 minutes, but everything is 
transferred, except for this email.


Next is to resize in gparted - which didn't complete.
I followed a youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgUwWkvuIY

Just to note,*sdc has never been mounted. *

The video is done in a virtual machine, but I followed the part 
showing how to do the resizing.  The linux-swap was turned off.  The 
error is as follows:


GParted 0.30.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2

*Grow /dev/sdc2 from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB*  00:00:00( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdc2  00:00:00( SUCCESS )

/path: /dev/sdc2 (partition)
start: 437226563
end: 500118191
size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

grow partition from 29.99 GiB to 723.03 GiB  00:00:00( ERROR )

/old start: 437226563
old end: 500118191
old size: 62891629 (29.99 GiB)/

/requested start: 437226563
requested end: 1953523711
requested size: 1516297149 (723.03 GiB)/

libparted messages( INFO )

/Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition./



*Move /dev/sdc5 to the right and grow it from 29.99 GiB to 29.99 GiB*



*Move /dev/sdc2 to the right and shrink it from 723.03 GiB to 29.99 GiB*



*Grow /dev/sdc1 from 208.48 GiB to 901.52 GiB*



/dev/sdc1 is ext4 and what I want extended  208.48 GiB
/dev/sdc2 is the extended partition                  29.99 GiB
/dev/sdc5 is the linux swap which was turned off 29.99 GiB and was 
inside the extended partition
unallocated was  
693.04 GiB


Partitions were dragged and moved per the basic instructions.

Can you give me a hint what went wrong?  I'm kind of surprised that it 
failed, essentially in the first step, growing the extended partition 
after turning linux-swap off.


The problem might be that gparted still has a problem with leaving 
1MiB at the end for the duplicate boot information.  I found a comment 
in 2017 for gparted: 
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17646


And: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738144

Is there a practical work around to my reported error?

Thanks,
Bruce


On 12/1/18 4:39 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:

On some of the BIOSes, unless you have the USB drive connected, before
you go into the BIOS, it will not appear as a boot option.

Also, depending on the USB flash drive model, it may appear:
1) as a removable device (aka a floppy drive),
2) a hard drive (appearing as second choice under hard disk drives;
     you would need to change the 1st drive to USB and the 2nd drive to
your current boot drive), or
3) as a CDROM drive.

Also, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you may need to switch it to Legacy,
instead of UEFI.

Lastly, if you have a UEFI BIOS, you need a UEFI compatible boot device.
In the case of Clonezilla, you need to download an AMD664 alternative
version (Ubuntu-based), rather than the default Debian-based. (We have
both the UEFI and Legacy versions of Clonezilla to try when we run into
such issues.)

And, rarely, I encounter computers that simply cannot boot USB flash
drives, but those tend to be much older ones.

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