So, we have a little internal server here at work that is used mostly
for storage and samba shares - it has (at last count) 5 different
drives attached to it (some are IDE, some are SATA, and one that is
in an external firewire enclosure).
As it was built to be a storage server in the first place, the main
drive with the system on it is pretty small, and was relatively old
(this machine was mostly cobbled together from old parts from other
stuff)
All the drives we use for storage are fine, but the main drive is
beginning to show signs of pending failure. I'd like to get it
replaced with a new drive as soon as possible (have new drive
arriving today), but I'd really, really prefer to not have to re-
configure the entire system as an install from scratch.
Here is what lshw has to say about the drive in question:
*-ide
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logical name: ide0
clock: 33MHz
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3120026A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 8.54
serial: 5JS5GH45
size: 111GB
capacity: 111GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm
partitioned partitioned:mac
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Apple partition map
physical id: 1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],1
logical name: /dev/hda1
capacity: 31KB
*-volume:1
description: Apple Bootstrap
physical id: 2
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],2
logical name: /dev/hda2
capacity: 977KB
capabilities: bootable
*-volume:2
description: Apple UNIX SVR2
physical id: 3
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],3
logical name: /dev/hda3
capacity: 110GB
*-volume:3
description: Apple UNIX SVR2
physical id: 4
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED],4
logical name: /dev/hda4
capacity: 1473MB
And smartmontools reports that the drive has had 4 errors in the last
few weeks (2 of which caused the kernel to set the filesystem into
read-only mode and forced a reboot/fsck of the drive, with filesystem
errors found and corrected).
So, my question is then: how can I clone this drive onto a new disk,
preserving the partitions, etc. Secondly, if the new disk is a
larger capacity, can I expand one of the partitions to fill the extra
space after I do the cloning?
Years ago I used dd for something similar, but as I recall the
geometry of the drives in question was identical.
Thanks!
- Kimball
http://www.kimballlarsen.com
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