On 2010年05月13日 17:18, Carl Karsten wrote: > If I need to clone and then resize the > partition, how long does that take? > It depends. If what you mean is the way now Clonezilla does now (resize the file system to fit the larger partition size), yes, basically it very fast. Only a few secs... > I think it is basically no time, worst case the amount of time it > takes to write a new inode table. Below is all the details I have. > Thanks for sharing that.
Regards, Steven. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Larry Garfield<[email protected]> > Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM > Subject: Re: [LUNI] Hard drive upgrade > To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical > Discussion"<[email protected]> > > > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 10:26:38 am Greg Neumarke wrote: > > >> As mentioned by others here, clonezilla has worked for me many times in >> scenarios like this. Create a bootable CD (or USB, try >> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net to do that) from the ISO image and >> connect both drives to a system that can handle the two drives at once. >> You don't need to do this in the current server. >> >> You should be fine selecting the non-expert mode and having clonezilla >> copy the entire hard drive over to the larger one locally. >> >> Then I would turn to the excellent PartedMagic distro, found here: >> http://partedmagic.com/ >> >> Create a bootable CD or USB stick and this will give you an easy way to >> resize the partitions to take up the additional room of your new drive. >> I also like the easy access to gsmartcontrol, which is a GUI front end >> to the SMART hard drive utilities. You can run the SMART tests and >> determine the health of both drives. I would run the extended SMART test >> on your new drive before deploying it if you have time. >> >> -Greg >> > Hm, so I think I'm seeing a slight preference for CloneZilla on this list... > :-) > > One question though, is time. If I need to clone and then resize the > partition, how long does that take? The last time I did partition resizing > (which admittedly was a long time ago), it was an obscenely slow process; to > the point that it would be faster to reconfigure the entire server and > transfer > existing files by floppy than to resize the partitions in place. Has the > process gotten faster in recent years? > > Figuring a 320 GB drive with 200 GB of data cloning to a 1 TB drive, all ext3, > how much time am I looking at, vague ballpark? Go get coffee? Go get dinner? > Go get a second Masters degree? :-) > > --Larry Garfield > -- > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni > > > > > -- Steven Shiau<steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
