On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27:00PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server > to a large (1.5TB) disk, > as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. > > Both disks are Western Digital, > and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. > I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. > > My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep > the original disk, and I'm not sure > from the documentation if True Image allows this. > > Any opinions on the better of the two? > I would be inclined to suggest regular UNIX dump/restore. The size change is covered in normal UNIX fashion and all links, ownership, permissions and flags are preserved properly. ////jerry > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos