On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 19:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. > > ... > > I am planning on using Clonezilla to clone the image to a portable > drive, and then restore the image from the portable drive to the new > machine. I've had success with Clonezilla in the past, but I restored > to the same machine.
I would think going from RAID to non-RAID would make drive cloning a problematic method to approach it. And hardware RAID may also throw in a few curveballs. Although RAID 1 is just a bunch of cloned discs essentially in parallel, they *may* have been prepared in a custom way to suit that RAID that makes directly booting one by itself a bit of a challenge. Having said that, you could try it. Unplug a disc from the RAID, and try booting from it as the only drive connected directly to a motherboard. Another couple of issues with cloning drives: If the new drive is bigger, you can end up with some unused wasted space. With some systems it's not too difficult to expand it to use the full drive, others not (I definitely couldn't do that on the Mac sitting next to me). And whatever filing system you used on your RAID *may* not be the best choice for a SSD. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
