I posed this same request to the group a couple weeks back. I was going to wait until I was successful with two clones before I reported my results, but here is what I tried and what worked. All my problems with cloning arose from making a bootable HD. dd failed to make a bootable drive for me and so did clonezilla, at first. Finally I made the target drive bootable by using a LiveCD to install Ubuntu. Then I used clonezilla to clone and went into expert mode to instruct it to stay away from the boot partition. That finally worked for me and I will try it on another drive this weekend. Also, there are two versions of Clonezilla, for old and new hardware, so make sure you pick the right one. BTW, all the advice about the target drive being larger than the source: believe it. -- -- Glenn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:59 PM nkp <nkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use Clonezilla for this. > Great-great program! > https://clonezilla.org > > > 23.04.2020 06:37, R C пишет: > > if the new disk is smaller, unlikely nowadays, you might be able to > > shrink it image you created (if you did), effectively > > > > it just truncates the file/iso and leave the empty space out. > > > > > > > > On 4/22/20 9:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > >> On 04/22/2020 09:22 PM, andrew beck wrote: > >>> Hey guys. > >>> > >>> Just a quick question here > >>> > >>> I recently heard some funny clanking noises in my old 2nd hand hard > >>> drive > >>> on my VMC and thought I better change it out and get a SSD in there. > >>> > >>> I have a bunch of stuff loaded onto the hardrive for probe basic gui > >>> and > >>> other stuff and would like to clone the drive and keep everything. > >>> > >>> I can manage a windows cloning I am just not sure if the process > >>> will work > >>> on a linux system. I am using a crucial brand SSD and can download the > >>> drive cloning software (it is rebadged acronis cloning software) > >>> > >>> > >> Well, there are two basic procedures. As long as the new drive is at > >> least as large or larger than the old drive, then you can make an > >> absolute clone in a few hours with the dd command. > >> > >> Best to boot off a live dvd, figure out the names of the two drives > >> and then > >> > >> |dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > >> > >> if= is the input disk, of= is the output disk. Replace X and Y with > >> the appropriate letters.Make REALLY sure you get > >> these right, or you will end up wiping the old disk. > >> > >> To make sure, you can use fdisk /dev/sdX > >> and then type p to see the partition tables and makes of the drives. > >> That should tell you for sure which one has the linux file system, > >> and which one probably has no partitions set up. > >> > >> The above procedure may not be real fast. > >> > >> If the new drive is larger, you can then expand the Linux file system to > >> fill the disk. > >> > >> If the new disk is smaller, then this won't work. > >> > >> > >> *** ONLY do the following if the new disk is smaller than the old one > >> *** > >> > >> You have to create > >> partitions with fdisk, make the file systems with mkfs and then copy > >> all the files with : > >> > >> # mkdir /mnt/original > >> # mkdir /mnt/copy > >> # mount /dev/sdX# /mnt/original > >> # mount /dev/sdY# /mnt/copy > >> where X is for the original disk, Y is the copy, and # is the > >> partition number > >> # cp -rfa /mnt/original /mnt/copy > >> and repeat this for all partitions (you don't need to copy the > >> swapfile partition. You create that with mkswap. > >> > >> Now, the big issue here is that since files have been moved around on > >> the disk, > >> the grub loader will not know where to find them. So, you have to > >> use the > >> live DVD system to run grub to update the loader to know where things > >> are. > >> The procedure is a bit involved, so I won't detail it unless you need to > >> go that route. > >> > >> Jon > >> > >> | > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
