The subject says it all. But a few more details. My 1Tb drive is about to die and I'm moving to a new 3Tb drive. The drive (/dev/sda) includes 5 partitions - / , /home , /boot/efi , /data , swap. Most of the bad blocks seem to be in the /data partition. Needless to say, I have good backups of everything on an external drive.
There are many ways to do this and I'm not looking for instructions, but "opinions" about what would be most efficient. I've considered a few options - but each seem to have advantages and dis-advantages: 1 - A fresh install and then update configurations and copy whatever else I need from the old drive or from my backup drive. (Advantage - get rid of old junk, Dis-advantage - seems like a lot of work) 2 - dd - and then, of course enlarge the partitions and/or add new partitions to use the added 2Tb. (Advantage - safe, Dis-advantage - there are many bad blocks on the old drive so ...) 3 - ddrescue (Advantage - may be better at handling the bad blocks, Dis-advantage - how safe is this?) 4 - Clonezilla (I never used this so I don't know) I'm assuming that after solutions #2, #3 and #4 I would only need to switch the sda cable so the new drive would become /dev/sda and of course edit fstab to correct all the UUID= lines. I'd like to hear opinions about which of these solutions (or any other solution) is best. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
