On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. > > Both drives are 160 GB in size. > > I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to > 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is because preupgrade > now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger and the second because > the swap file is supposed to be as big as the RAM in the computer and my > laptop currently has 4GB and I want to upgrade to 8 GB in the future. > > So... I partitioned the SSD to the appropriate sizes. I then ran > Clonezilla and installed the /boot data seemingly without any problem. > I used the expert mode and told it to resize things to fit the new /boot > partition size. > > Unfortunately, Clonezilla won't let me do the same for / because / on > the SSD is 6 GB or so smaller than it was on the hard drive > because /boot and swap are larger. > > So how do I move ALL the data from / on the hard drive to / on the sdd ? > > dd won't work because its for device files, not for partitions. If I > use dd between the devices, it won't resize anything. > > Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to resize everything > afterward ? > > Can one make cp copy EVERYTHING on one drive to another and keep the > timestamps, etc, all correct ? > > I think I did this once a few years ago using tar, but I can't remember > how and I think it took up a lot of disk space and took forever to run. > I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "hints" files I liked the fsarchiver method as I could save an "image file" containing a complete replica of "/", it was only 8.5GB when compressed in my case 35mins to save the file, 20 mins to restore Maybe of some help John 1. From this list using cpio 2. Using fsarchiver 1. cpio From: gary artim <gartim@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: change HDD without Re-installing Fedora 12 ..!!!! Date: 02/25/2010 05:04:17 PM Just uses create a mirror of a system I'm running. May help?! -- gary ## Add the new disk to the system this example assumes a /dev/sda and (new) /dev/sdb sda has 3 partitions, 1 swap, /boot, /. / and /boot are ext3 fstype. ## create new partition on new disk parted (you need to set the partition type as gpt) mkpart ## (model after target disk only larger, note: change the names (labels) ## create 3 partition /, /boot, swap) ## make filesystem and copy mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb3 mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt cd / find . -xdev | cpio -pdumv /mnt umount /mnt mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt cd /boot find . -xdev | cpio -pdumv /mnt umount /mnt ## mbr copy dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 ## fix grub ## boot fc11 recovery dvd ## (need newer grub for gpt partition tables) ## assumes your first partition has grub installed on it grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) exit ############################################################################### 2. fsarchiver fuerte hints_info 7# cat fsarchiver_partition_cloning_recipe 11_03_2010 Copied from ~/hints_info/backup_restore_summary Boot from ssd1 or maybe rescueCD Check selinux status See http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart - Execution environment and http://www.fsarchiver.org/Attributes Neither source nor destination are mounted fsarchiver -o -j3 -z 6 savefs /tmp/fsarchive_sda7.fsa /dev/sda7 fsarchiver restfs /tmp/fsarchive_sda7.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda2,mkfs=ext3 fsarchiver copies the UUID be careful !!!! tune2fs -U random /dev/sda2 as required mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/zip nedit /mnt/zip/etc/fstab Change UUID nedit /mnt/zip/boot/grub/grub.conf Change root (hdx,y) and UUID grub Check which disk is which by root (hd1,7) say to access a unique partition! root (hd0,1) setup (hd0,1) Rebooted - the restored partition appears clean with SElinux enabled !! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fsarchiver - "is still in development, don't use it for critical data yet" Installed fsarchiver on F12 fuerte and tried backup of 48GB part Speed about 0.8 GB/min fsarchiver -o -j3 -z 6 savefs /media/max80/fsarchive_sda7.fsa /dev/sda7 Can be used on a directory but is it better than tar? fsarchiver -o -j3 -z 6 savedir /media/max80/fsarchive_ja.fsa /home/ja ------------ Installed fsarchiver on ssd1 and then with selinux enabled in permissive mode, sda7 unmounted NB In future ideally selinux should be DISABLED See http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart - Execution environment and http://www.fsarchiver.org/Attributes These two URLs are very important reading - I don't understand them yet ! It is recommended to restore filesystems using fsarchiver from an environment where SELinux is disabled or not supported. fsarchiver -o -j3 -z 6 savefs /tmp/fsarchive_sda7.fsa /dev/sda7 Timed at 34mins, du -hs 21GB -> 8.5GB fsarchiver restfs /tmp/fsarchive_sda7.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda2,mkfs=ext3 Restore took about 20mins! No errors given > BTW: if I verify the partition table for the SSD, it tells me > Remaining 5165 unallocated 512-byte sectors > > Yet: > Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x0001ab7d > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 66 530113+ 83 Linux > /dev/sdb2 67 1111 8393962+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sdb3 1112 19457 147364245 83 Linux > > > Am I missing something ? > > Thanks ! > No comment on above question - but do you not still have to align the partitions to obtain the best performance on an SSD? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
