[ale] dd vs clonezilla to replace hard drive

[Boris Borisov]

If you clone disk that is almost to fail to new one and you don't want to
waste  3-4  hours for installing necessary software.

Talking Windows on production PC.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 13:59 Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> +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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