Hi, If a fresh install is an option - it's probably the best one, (depending on the extra work it may present ). (imo) .
If I must clone, I'd use clonezilla, and have used it extensively, for the most part, I've had good results for both personal or production use. As for dd - unless you've had experience cloning drives with it, I'd do some practice runs on other hardware, before taking a shot with the critical one. Good luck :) Guy On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:14 AM Geoffrey Mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I tried clonzilla to move an lvm partitioned disk to a new one. it used > various forms of dd copying. > The copy went sucessfully, but it did not boot. Fsck failed with hundreds if > not thousands of bad files, duplicate inodes, etc. > In the end I just did a fresh install from the original distribution with no > updates and no lvm, It booted properly, I rebooted from the install media, > and then I copied using rsync all of the files off the old drive onto the > new. i ran grub just to be sure. > > Worked fine. > > Geoff > > Jerusalem, Israel > On May 1, 2019, 7:30 AM +0300, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com>, > wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Guy Gold _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
