copy full system from old disk to a new one

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 02/17/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 17.02.2013 20:59, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:
>> On 02/17/2013 03:30 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>>> On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote:
>>>
>>>> How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving
>>>> me some trouble) to a new disk.
>>> [....]
>>>> I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub,
>>>> and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var.
>>> You can do that easily. Prepare your new disk (partition, format),
>>> boot from an external medium, e.g. http://www.sysresccd.org ,
>>> mount the old and the new partitions and do a
>>>
>>>   rsync -avxHSAX /old/ /new
>>>
>>> This is all you need. Afterwards, you'll have to reinstall GRUB, which
>>> you can do this way (assumed /dev/sda1 is yor root partition):
>>>
>>> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>>> grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
>>> grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>>>
>>> That's it. Reboot, and you're done.
>>> (Did this procedure a lot, and it never failed for me).
>>>
>> Just curious, will this apply to moving /_everything _/over from a "smaller" drive to a "bigger"
>> one?.......like....say from a 320GB SATA HDD to a 500GB SATA HDD?....will the OS automatically be able to identify
>> and recognize the free space on the new drive?
> if you are dealing with rsync you HAVE already partitions
> where you copy things around - so there is nothing
> to recognize
>
> if wouldn't do this and stick with dd / disk images and use gparted
> to resize partitions because if i clone machines i want to have
> all UUID's the same which matters in border cases like diks usgae
> widget of KDE in case you sync two of your machines regulary and
> because any LVM/RAID whatever IDs and there configs are 100% sane
>
>
>
Excellent!....thanks for the info! Getting ready to swap out the drive 
for this F18 laptop....from 320 GB to 500GB...(was thinking about a 
750GB...but it's too much....don't have that much stuff to save!)


EGO II
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