On 16 Feb 2013 at 20:53, Martín Marqués wrote: Date sent: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:53:15 -0300 Subject: copy full system from old disk to a new one From: Martín Marqués <martin.marques@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving > me some trouble) to a new disk. I have 4 partitions, all of which I > have only passed /home using cp -.a > > I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, > and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var. > > TIA! Some additional comments. Spinrite is a program that I have used in the past that can correct errors to recovered data from disks that have issues. Once had a disk had massive problems from another user, and ran spinrite on it for days to complete, and was then able to copy all the data they needed luckly, but disk was beyond recovery. I'm the maintainer of the G4L disk imaging project, and it is basically using dd to make most copies, but also has options to use dd_rescue programs that can try to get arround errors if the regular copy doesn't work. It can do disk clones to copy all data from one disk to another, but doesn't resize to a larger disk, but keeps everything the exact same size. I generally use the project to make images of the disk or partitions to files, that can be used to restore to a disk in the event of a disk failure more than trying to recover after a failure. What exact errors are you getting from the disk? Have you run a memtest on the system? Good Luck. > > -- > Martín Marqués > select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' > DBA, Programador, Administrador > -- > 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 Have > a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 13902506.299683 | EINSTEIN 10019879.779852 ROSETTA 6117405.134244 | ABC 15881854.139214 -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
