On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:32:12PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 > just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I > replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor > as the system it runs on is a little too old to handle a large > drive. > > If I use dd to copy the 10-gig drive over to the new > drive as in: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=20M > > it works when I remove the old screamer drive, change the jumper > on the new drive to Master and boot but this is not very > efficient as it wastes almost 6 gigs of drive. > > What I tried to do was to format /dev/hdb with hdb1 > being around 15GB and then /dev/hdb2 being extended and holding > hdb5 marked as swap just like /dev/hda. /dev/hdb1 is also set to > bootable and shows up as such when using fdisk /dev/hdb and > then the p command. > > The rsync command tries to copy everything on the old > disk except /proc and it also fails to copy those files which > probably never stay around such as timer values and other > volital information so /dev and everything else get copied. > Boot from a live CD, mount your new and old drive, and then rsync them. This will avoid all the files that a running Linux system creates when it boots, and it will simplify (or eliminate) your rsync --exclude list.
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