Hi,

I've got a question (possible problem)...

I've got Debian Lenny installed on an 80GB EIDE hard drive that's about
to ware out. I have a second hard drive that is a SATA drive that is
rather new and no signs of any problems.


I'm planning on using clonezilla 1.2.3-27 to clone the 80GB drive, with
my root / partition, to a new hard drive, a 160GB SATA drive. I came to
realize though that my 80GB is device hda, and the new SATA will be I
suppose sda. I thought that after the cloning I may just need to edit
the fstab file on the new 160GB SATA from hda to sda, and from the
current sda to sdb, etc., but I really don't know for sure.


So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any
of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these
circumstances?


My current fstab file (on the 80GB EIDE) looks like this:

proc /proc proc defaults 0
0
/dev/hda2 / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda2 /data ext3 defaults 0
2
/dev/sda1 /home ext3
defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0
0

/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 usr,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0


I greatly appreciate your help! Thank you!
Robert


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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote:

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> So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any
> of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these
> circumstances?

After cloning the drive, in order to boot properly, besides adjusting "/
etc/fstab" do not forget to edit the corresponding GRUB entries located
at "/boot/grub/menu.lst".

They have also to point to the right (new) device.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón


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