Sorry. I keep forgetting stuff. But I looked at my notes again. One neat
trick:
in another VT terminal in the rescue environment:
ps -ef
identify dd processid after you start it.
watch -n 10 kill -USR1 {pid of your dd process}
This will make it report its progress on the other (first) VT.
For my experience, I had a mostly 320 GB disk take between 2-3 hours to copy
everything over.
Hope that helps,
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Forgot to mention I did this from a install DVD in rescue mode for RHEL 5.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Gary Gatling <gsgat...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did this recently with a RHEL 5 laptop. The disk wasn't failing though.
>> It was just smaller than I would have liked.
>>
>> Left the old drive in place and put new drive in usb device that connects
>> two sata drives, either laptop or desktop. The one we bought fits either
>> type...
>>
>> What worked best for me was:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=100M
>>
>> because I was in a hurry and the new disk was 1 TB.
>>
>> Because I used lvm on that disk I had to do a bunch of stuff to "grow"
>> everything to fill the new disk. But if you don't care about any extra space
>> you might not need that last part. If you don't use lvm I think you can just
>> use a gparted live DVD or live CD and increase your partiation sizes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mirko Vukovic
>> <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The drive /dev/sda on which the kernel, root, and RHEL in general live is
>>> slowly dying (based on smartctl). I have the replacement drive in hand.
>>>
>>> Is the following possible?
>>>
>>> - put the replacement drive into an empty bay
>>> - clone /dev/sda onto it like: *dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc
>>> *- move the new drive into the /dev/sda drive bay
>>>
>>> Or is there another preferable solution?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Mirko
>>>
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>>
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