[CentOS] EL6: Hard Disk upgrade howto?

[Les Mikesell]

On 8/1/2011 11:16 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
>
> I tried using Clonezilla to clone a 300 GB SAS drive to a 1 TB SATA
> drive. I don't care *at* *all* if there's some wasted space - I just
> want it to *work*. But it thew a screen full of random textual garbage
> on the screen and not much helpful information when I hit the "go" button.
>
>
> (sigh)

I've used clonezilla frequently and have never seen that kind of failure 
(although I haven't tried it on an ext4 filesystem yet).  That sounds 
like a bad download or iso burn to me.  Did you verify the md5sum? 
Also, it is usually safest to use the latest available 
'alternative-stable' (ubuntu based) release which would be the iso from:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads/alternative/iso-zip-files.php

If you have time to experiment, it would also be interesting to see how 
you fare with 'rear', which you can install via yum from epel.  You run 
it on your working system and it creates a bootable iso that knows how 
to reconstruct the existing filesystem (lvm/md/etc.) layout and restore 
a backup (of various types).  The documentation leaves a lot to be desired:
http://rear.sourceforge.net/
but it does seem to understand more about linux quirks than anything 
similar that I've seen.

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   Les Mikesell
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