I've been the maintainer of the G4L disk imaging project since 2004, and many of its options are using dd with compression to make disk/partition images or clone disks. A couple of issues. if you make an image or clone of the disk, you probable will not have a problem since it will copy the blkid info from the old drive, so it will match as part of boot process. The big problem is if the new disk is going into a machine with a controller that is not part of you initrd. The disk will be identical, but since the contoller isn't included it will not be able to boot. Recently, had a motherboard in a system go bad. Moved disk to another machine, and default kernel wouldn't boot because of different on board controller. Was able to boot from the older rescue kernel, and then go thru the process of rebuilding the initrd for the latest kernel. Then that one booted fine. Had a similar issue many years ago, when I imaged an IDE hard disk to a new sata disk. With windows systems, there seem to be more issues. On the same machine it works fine, but moving to systems that are just a little different sometimes results in various messages. Good Luck. On 17 Sep 2016 at 16:53, Xen wrote: Date sent: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:53:14 +0200 From: Xen <list@xenhideout.nl> To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Subject: Re: creating DD copies of disks Send reply to: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com> > Xen schreef op 17-09-2016 16:16: > > > I just won't be able to use the old system until I change it back. > > Time to test, isn't it. > > Indeed both Linux and Windows have no issues with the new disk, I think. > > I was making a backup onto a bigger-sized disk, but neither Windows nor > Linux have an issue with it. They just see the old partition table of > the old disk and are fine with that. > > Now I only need to know if the Linux system will run with the new disk, > but I'm sure there won't be issues there now. The system is not actually > *on* that disk. > > Call it a data disk for an SSD system. > > So perhaps you can see why I would want to have the two disks loaded at > the same time: > > - if they work, I can copy data even after the DD (perhaps, to make some > rsync copy as you indicate) but now I already have all the required > structures (partition tables...) without any work. > > - I wasn't actually yet done with the old disk. This was also just > research. Better make a backup first before you finalize things. I want > to do more work on the "old" system before I finalize things. But having > a backup sitting there that I can use is a plus. Having to not be able > to use both disks at the same time is a huge detriment. It is also not > that hard now to change the system back but I still don't know how I can > manually change the UUIDs that a VG/LV references. It is a huge plus if > I can just exchange one PV with another at will. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com 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 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 113011037.288695 ROSETTA 48420184.415104 | SETI 91961748.223136 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
