[ale] dd vs clonezilla to replace hard drive

[Narahari Lakshminarayana]

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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