Morgan Leijström a écrit :
måndagen den 14 november 2011 09.37.33 skrev Juergen Harms:
The hard drive containing my system partitions is dying. I can still
read it, but will have to rapidly replace it by a new (and bigger) drive.
Try to avoid writing to it as temporary faults may screw files up....
Good point.
Does somebody have experience with - rather re-installing Mga and
Windows-7 partition - simply copying the corresponding file-system
(piped tar) and then just recreating the boot sector - would be much
quicker, in particular for the windows partition? Any particular
precautions to take?
Once i simply booted a live system, used dd to copy from old to bigger larger
drive, then gparted to extend (not move) windows partition, and i think i just
moved and extended home while deleting linux system and reinstalled.
Using dd on the whole disk ( /dev/sdx (whthout number ) take the whole drive
including boot sector and whatever.
Of course you can dd to a file on a mounted large drive too, to make a backup
as soon as possible and then from the file to new drive at later time.
I've used a similar approach a few times on portables, to just install a
larger disk.
Booting to systemrescuecd (a live cd, http://www.sysresccd.org/), I used
gparted to format the new drive (attached via usb), and copied the
Ms-windows C partition, ensuring that it starts on the same sector.
(Which produces an exact copy like DD.)
Then I used gparted to copy (and resize at the same time) the other
partitions (Ms-windows D + linux). (This does copy + resize in one
step, so faster.)
It is important to do it when not running from the old drive, hence
using a live cd.
(At least for swap and /; also /home if logged on to an account other
than root.)
After, I test-booted from the new drive, and if I wanted to, I resized
the Ms C partition. I always use a D partition for data files + any
programs that are supposed to run on Linux via wine, so usually there
was no need to resize C. I usually set fstab so C is not normally
mounted under Linux.
I've done this with Ms-XP and -Vista, don't know if -7 would cause any
problems.
(I usually also use gdisk partition tables, with hybrid for Ms
partitions, but that is another question.)
--
André
