Re: easiest way to replace hard drive?

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Quoting "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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 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.

- Mike

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.

Part-image, as someone else suggested, is also a good choice. It only copies the data portions of the drive leaving the free blocks alone. So it only copies those blocks that have data.

Jon


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