[ale] dd vs clonezilla to replace hard drive

[Pete Hardie]

+1 for this. I've never had a case where a bitwise clone of a disk was
needed

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 13:57 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Or do the best method and do a fresh install of your fav distro and use
> the old disk as your data backup and copy over your home for.
>
> Assuming your distro has a package manager, just export a list of
> installed packages to make sure you get them all in the new install.
>
> Sometimes a "drive migration" makes sense in a business setting. Other
> than just for practice, it's basically a time waster for personal stuff and
> especially if the new drive is much larger that the old drive.
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 1:06 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <
> ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Why not run clozilla live CD and do this ?
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 13:02 Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The critical thing is that the mounted partitions, especially the root
>>> partition (/) normally are changing.  You will end up with corrupted
>>> partitions unless you allow for this.
>>>
>>> First boot single user mode:
>>>
>>>   1. Reboot the system.
>>>
>>>   2. When it gets to the LILO stage hit the shift button to stop the
>>>      countdown to auto-boot.
>>>
>>>   3. Hit tab to see what kernels to boot and determine the right one,
>>>      say "Linux"
>>>
>>>   4. Key "Linux single" RETURN.
>>>
>>>   5. Login (to single user mode).
>>>
>>>   6. Do "mount" and umount all the disk file systems except the root fs.
>>>
>>>   7. Remount the root fs thusly:
>>>
>>>        mount -o remount,ro /dev/something /
>>>
>>>   8. Test that it really is mounted read only:
>>>      Do:
>>>          touch /root/foo
>>>      Expect:
>>>          Error: read only file system (or similar)
>>>
>>>
>>>   If using other boot loaders do similar.  Alternatively, on some distros
>>>   you can do:
>>>     tcsh:
>>>        setenv RUNLEVEL S
>>>     sh/bash:
>>>        tcsh
>>>        env RUNLEVEL S
>>>
>>>   Do that dd very carefully as botching it trashes your existing disk:
>>>
>>>      dd bs=10240k if=/dev/your-source-disk of=/dev/new-disk-to-write-on
>>>      fsck -f of=/dev/new-disk-to-write-on
>>>
>>> You might want to expand the lask partition to enjoy your additional
>>> space by using GNU parted or similar:
>>>
>>>   https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/features.shtml
>>>
>>> Or you can add new partitions after the end of the last one with fdisk
>>> or similar.
>>>
>>> Check for typos before using above notes.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 05:35:34PM -0700, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>>> > Format the new one and rsync.
>>> > Unless this is a boot drive then dd the boot sector and /boot
>>> partition.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 5:29 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <
>>> ale at ale.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Friends:
>>> > >
>>> > > I bought a new SSD drive of the size 512GB the inland brand from
>>> > > Microcenter.
>>> > > I want to use that to replace my current laptop's 160 GB NON-SSD
>>> drive.
>>> > >
>>> > > Is it a good idea to use Clonezilla to make an img file of the
>>> current
>>> > > disk and restore to the new SSD ?
>>> > >
>>> > > OR
>>> > >
>>> > > Is it faster and best to run the dd command and replicate bit-by-bit
>>> of
>>> > > the current drive to the new SSD drive ?
>>> > >
>>> > > Please advise.
>>> > >
>>> > > -N
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