At Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:26:04 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > On 11/30/2010 12:10 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > > >>> The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 > >>> sectors/928 cylinders) > >>> The new CF card is 8019M (255 heads/63 sectors/974 cylinders) > >>> > >>> I simply do "dd if=cf.img of=/dev/sde" to copy the images to CF. > >> > >> ARG!!! Don't do this! You really, really don't want to dd a > >> raw disk image (including mbr/partition table) to a > >> *different* geometry disk -- it does not matter what the > >> 'disk' tech is (IDE. SCSI, SATA, SSD, etc.). > > > > Even if the two disks have the same manufacturer and manufacturer part > > number, different firmware revisions can fail to boot after > > > > dd if=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev1 > > of=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev2 > > > > Been there, done that, got bit where the sun doesn't shine. > > > >> Partition the new disk with fdisk (or something like that), > >> then use mkfs to make the file systems than use dump/restore > >> to move the file systems. Finally use grub-install (or lilo) > >> to install the boot loader. > > > > +1 > > sfdisk -d /dev/olddisk> /product/partition.layout > > dump (whatever) > > > > ...years later... > > > > sfdisk /dev/newdisk< /product/partition.layout > > restore (whatever) > > grub-install (magic tbd) > > # SHIP IT > > I'm not positive, but I'd expect clonezilla to get this right - and > probably be able to expand the partition after the copy for you. Plus > it will save time compared to dd by not needing to copy unused disk > blocks and it can save a compressed image on a file server for repeated > cloning. Right. clonezilla is much more than dd. I would suspect that clonezilla is a bundling of sfdisk, dump/restore, and grub-install, or something link that. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikese...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
