31 Jul
2010
31 Jul
'10
12:59 p.m.
According to the SMART stats, the single drive in my Fedora server is starting to fail. Rather than backup, do a clean install, and rebuild, I'd like to try to clone the existing drive to a new one, then swap in the new one.
What are the restrictions on doing this and the best way to accomplish it? I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for backup. Will that do it?
Or will a straight dd do it? add new drive as PATA slave /dev/sdb dd -if /dev/sda -of /dev/sdb remove /dev/sda change the jumpers on /dev/sdb to match what was /dev/sda reboot
In the dd procedure, I'm not sure what to do if sdb is larger than sda.
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-- Steve