Well I left off the long description of how I had to handle the i/o errors when dd hit the bad sectors. dd is great for straight copying, but it's error handling is non-existent.
Ken On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:31:58 -0500, Shane O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Show off. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ken Mink > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:03 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HDD Migration > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:19:00 -0500 (EST), Jason Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to get some tips on migrating an install of Linux to another, > > bigger HDD? It is a straight 1 HDD to 1 HDD change... I know I could use > dd > > , but I am trying to see if there is a better way. > > > > Thanks > > > > Jason > > -- > > I just went through this last weekend. I had a hard drive that was > losing sectors at an increasing rate, so I bought a replacement drive. > I installed the new drive while the old drive was still in the system. > I booted knoppix and used fdisk to recreate the partition table on the > new drive. After a reboot(again running knoppix), I just dd'ed each > partition to the new drive. This method takes a while as your copying > the entire partition, not just the used space. However, it is very > straight forward. If you shutdown cleanly before booting to knoppix, > you filesystems will be in clean too, on both drives. > > Ken > -- > --------------------------------------------- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- --------------------------------------------- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
