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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm |
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> planning on going through the normal installation process except for |
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> copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the |
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> corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch |
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> out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc? |
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I don't think so... it depends on what drive it is and how it is |
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partitioned... if there's just one partition then it should be as |
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simple as formatting the new copy and "cp -a /olddrive /newdrive" |
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If it's your boot drive and has boot/root/home/and so on partitions |
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then you'll need to pay attention to the partition numbers as they |
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very well may be different when you partition the new disk. Be sure to |
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edit the grub config & fstab to make sure it's all pointing to the |
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right place. |
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An alternative in that case would be to use dd to clone the old drive |
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onto the new one, then use something like parted (gparted/qtparted for |
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GUI) to resize the partitions to fit the new disk, assuming the |
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filesystems in use allow for such a thing. The disadvantage to this is |
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you are closing fragmentation and everything else, and if the new |
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drive is a lot bigger than the old, you may not have enough inodes in |
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your fileystem. |
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Whenever I do that, I boot from a live CD and copy the drives as |
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above, then plug the new drive into its official cable, boot from live |
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CD again and make sure the partition numbers are right, install grub |
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(if boot drive), reboot and everything is done. If anything went |
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horribly wrong, you've always got the original drive that you can go |
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back to and try again. |
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Good luck :) |
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Paul |
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