on 9-28-2010 8:27 AM Timothy Murphy spake the following: > Jerry McAllister 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. > > I should have admitted that there is a Windows partition on the old disk. > It came with the machine, but I never use it. > However, I would like to save it if possible, > as there seem to be some operations on this computer (HP ProLiant M110), > eg updating the BIOS, which seem to require Windows to be running. > > All the HP servers I have are fully update able from linux... I don't have a M110, but I have several ML350's