Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 04:38:36 CET schrieb Pierre Couderc: My way: - Boot with a live cd with clonezilla on it (i.e. clonezilla live)
- clone the complete harddrive to the new one. Pay attentention, that the new one must be equal or bigger than the source. - Use another live cd with gparted on it and move or resize the partitions. -------------------- Second way (more work and more complicated): - Boot with a linux live system (debian live, Knoppix whatever) - mount the old one to a new mountpoint in root, like /disk1 - partition the new drive to your needs manually - mount the new one to a new mountpoint in root, like /disk2 - use rsync for transferring data to the new one - reboot to your old system with the connected new harddrive - install grub on the new harddrive (grub --install /dev/sdb or update-grub might do it) -------------------- Have fun Best Hans > I have a btrfs RAID1 system. I did install it with /dev/sda disk (efs on > sda1, btrfs on sda2). Then, after install, I added a sdb disk (vfat on > sdb1, btrfs on sdb2) and I did btrfs balance. > > As /dev/sda is now old, I want to change it. I know btrfs procedures but > I do not know grub procedures. > > I suppose I should install "some grub thing" on sdb1 and inform the > system to boot on sdb1. How to do that ? > > Is there a good tutorial that I have not found ? > > Is it possible to have a system booting automatically on sdb1 if sda1 > fails ? > > In fact I did add later an identical sdc disk...
