easiest way to replace hard drive?

Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightforward way. However, I want to try repl

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

> However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 GB > solid-state drive, just for fun... > > I suspect a re-install might be easier. We have used rsync plus grub-install to clone systems before, and it seemed to work fine (if you get the 6 million nit-picky rsync options c

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 10:18 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: I suspect a re-install Reinstallation will be easy .but if there is no any important data on the drive then there is nothing wrong to do a experiment ;-) just look at this [1] [1] http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page -- fedora-list ma

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding > boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different > hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? > > If the new drive is larger, dd could be used

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a f

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding >> boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different >> hard drive, if the new drive is sm

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fair

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding >>> boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a di

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

Joel Gomberg wrote: > On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, >> swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard >> drive, if the new drive is smaller? >> >> If the new driv

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 10:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

Quoting "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" : Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding boot, swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard drive, if the new drive is smaller? If the new drive is larger, dd could be used in a fairly straightfo

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

I would think you would need to do a lvreduce and possibly a vgreduce to get the data portion of the drive under 80GB. From there I think a 'dd' would work just fine. With a resize2fs first, I guess... Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! It looks like a minefield, so I'm going to

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 12:13 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 10/08/2009 10:47 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> On 10/08/2009 10:31 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> >>> On 10/08/2009 09:48 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >>> Hi all, Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:48:13PM -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > However, I want to try replacing a 160 GB hard drive with an Intel 80 GB > solid-state drive, just for fun... You have an interesting definition of fun... -- Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com -- fedora-list

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> I would think you would need to do a lvreduce and possibly a vgreduce to >> get the data portion of the drive under 80GB. From there I think a 'dd' >> would work just fine. > > With a resize2fs first, I guess... > > Anyway, thanks

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On 10/08/2009 08:10 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: Why miss the real fun? Try Clonezilla; it can image a drive inside of 20min. But it can not image to a smaller drive, alas. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > Is there an easy way to transfer a system from one drive (holding > boot, > swap, lvm partitions, in the default F11 layout) to a different hard > drive, if the new drive is smaller? > > If the new drive is larger, dd could be

Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

Try to mount new hd under /media/newhd tar --exclude media/newhd/\* --exclude proc/\* --exclude dev/\* --exclude sys/\* -pcf - ./ | tar -pxvf - -C /media/newhd/ cu Joe On 10/09/2009 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: I