[Leaplist] can I clone my hard drive

[andrei raevsky]

ok,

I am dumping ReiserFS for ext3 at the first opportunity.  the reason I used
it in the first place was that at the time before I had a UPS at home
ReiserFS really was faster than ext3 in recovering and rebooting.  Since I
have a UPS now, this is irrelevant.

(also - I thought that since Reiser himself in in jail on murder charges he
will not be able to work on his filesystem. too bad)

and yes, creating a separate partition for me is a very good idea which I
will also implement as soon as I get some new hardware.

thanks for all the good advice - at least now I will learn something from my
mistakes...

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Fred Moore <fmoor at fmeco.com> wrote:

> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > Kevin Anderson wrote:
> >> You can copy it.  But you may need to revisit lilo or grub, whichever
> >> you use (I'd assume grub).
> >>
> >> Be careful with switches.  It might take a try or two.  Don't follow
> >> symlinks, preserve permissions, I remember something about special
> >> devices (/dev/tty01 or /dev/null, etc) but not the particular
> >> switched you need.
> >>
> >> Doing a copy rather than a "ghost" will allow you to not need to
> >> worry about the partition or hard drive sizes.  If you want to
> >> change, now's the time.
> >>
> >> Also Reiser, EXT3, etc, it won't matter.  I'd likely recommend
> >> walking away from Reiser.  I think it's been murdered.  Even Suse has
> >> sent it away for life.  The jury is still deciding on it's fate
> >> elsewhere.
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Kev.
> >
> > I 2nd the motion on ReiserFS :-). Lose it, go to ext3 (won't be able
> > to clone, but you said the home drive was the most important, probably
> > no need to clone that anyway), just set up an ext3 FS on your new
> > drive & 'cp -r'/tar/whatever you like to get the data across.
> >
> >
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> I --- 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 the ReiserFS stuff..  go to ext3... it just
> works..   I went the Reiser route one time it lasted for about 5 weeks..
> before going back.   Errors and crashes...   as for spinwrite...  that
> will most likely fix the drive problem..  assuming its just bad
> sectors..   Many of us have spinwrite with us at the installfest..  but
> it takes a while to run..   I just used it to verify 4-250 gig drives..
> last month took about 9 hours each..    I found no errors so I trust
> these drives..  they were low hour pulls..
>
> I highly suggest you look into smartmontools.. here is a link to a good
> article about it
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
>
> I have been using this information since I first had a hard disk problem
> in Linux.. since using it I know in advance if a problem is occurring at
> the hardware level.. and have quite a lot of time to plan on the fix.
>
> just a suggestion.. but to me data is critical...  thats why I run an
> rsync job (/home/fmoor) to my server every hour with --nodelete ...
>
> I have also learned over the years to put /home/fmoor  on a separate
> partition.  That way I can work on the operating system all I want with
> my /home partition unmounted...  or mounted ro..   It also makes it
> easier to completely change the distro if I want..   Dam I seem to
> remember doing this way back in the AIX, Sun admin days..   Some things
> are just such good ideas..  I suggest you learn to not just take the
> distro suggestion of  "use entire hard disk"  and yea I know that disks
> have become more reliable over the years.. but its my data..  and they
> do use movable parts..  I not only get to create my data it I get to
> protect it from harm..
>
> Guess I should explain further..  assuming I have a 120 gig drive.. give
> the install the first 20 gig.. let it do a full install along with a
> swap space..  I even create my user fmoor...  so now I have a full
> operating system that is contained in the first 20 gig partition with
> 100 gig (- swap) available..   I then manually partition the remaining
> space into one partition and then mount it over /home/fmoor.   This
> gives me the flexibility to unmount the partition mounted over
> /home/fmoor and still run without my data for testing or what ever..
> its a simple entry into fstab..   I can then reinstall my distro or
> change in relative safety just remove the manual fstab entry first..
> then remount after you are done playing..
>
> Fred
>
>
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