hey jon my old hard drive is 1000 gb the new SSD is 120 gb
So I definitely need to shrink the iso. But the actual data on the old hard drive is probably only about 3 gb regards Andrew On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:34 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 04/22/2020 09:22 PM, andrew beck wrote: > > Hey guys. > > > > Just a quick question here > > > > I recently heard some funny clanking noises in my old 2nd hand hard drive > > on my VMC and thought I better change it out and get a SSD in there. > > > > I have a bunch of stuff loaded onto the hardrive for probe basic gui and > > other stuff and would like to clone the drive and keep everything. > > > > I can manage a windows cloning I am just not sure if the process will > work > > on a linux system. I am using a crucial brand SSD and can download the > > drive cloning software (it is rebadged acronis cloning software) > > > > > Well, there are two basic procedures. As long as the new > drive is at least as large or larger than the old drive, > then you can make an absolute clone in a few hours with the > dd command. > > Best to boot off a live dvd, figure out the names of the two > drives and then > > |dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > > if= is the input disk, of= is the output disk. Replace X and Y with > the appropriate letters.Make REALLY sure you get > these right, or you will end up wiping the old disk. > > To make sure, you can use fdisk /dev/sdX > and then type p to see the partition tables and makes of the drives. > That should tell you for sure which one has the linux file system, > and which one probably has no partitions set up. > > The above procedure may not be real fast. > > If the new drive is larger, you can then expand the Linux file system to > fill the disk. > > If the new disk is smaller, then this won't work. > > > *** ONLY do the following if the new disk is smaller than the old one *** > > You have to create > partitions with fdisk, make the file systems with mkfs and then copy > all the files with : > > # mkdir /mnt/original > # mkdir /mnt/copy > # mount /dev/sdX# /mnt/original > # mount /dev/sdY# /mnt/copy > where X is for the original disk, Y is the copy, and # is the > partition number > # cp -rfa /mnt/original /mnt/copy > and repeat this for all partitions (you don't need to copy the > swapfile partition. You create that with mkswap. > > Now, the big issue here is that since files have been moved around on the > disk, > the grub loader will not know where to find them. So, you have to use the > live DVD system to run grub to update the loader to know where things are. > The procedure is a bit involved, so I won't detail it unless you need to > go that route. > > Jon > > | > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
