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Re: How do I change disk ?

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Thank you. I am surprised;  update-grub is enough to install grub 
correctly on all drives...??


On 1/11/22 11:24, Hans wrote:
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> Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022, 04:38:36 CET schrieb Pierre Couderc:
>
> My way:
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>
> - Boot with a live cd with clonezilla on it (i.e. clonezilla live)
>
>
> - clone the complete harddrive to the new one. Pay attentention, that 
> the new one must be equal or bigger than the source.
>
>
> - Use another live cd with gparted on it and move or resize the 
> partitions.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Second way (more work and more complicated):
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>
> - Boot with a linux live system (debian live, Knoppix whatever)
>
>
> - mount the old one to a new mountpoint in root, like /disk1
>
>
> - partition the new drive to your needs manually
>
>
> - mount the new one to a new mountpoint in root, like /disk2
>
>
> - use rsync for transferring data to the new one
>
>
> - reboot to your old system with the connected new harddrive
>
>
> - install grub on the new harddrive (grub --install /dev/sdb or 
> update-grub might do it)
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>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Have fun
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Hans
>
> > I have a btrfs RAID1 system. I did install it with /dev/sda disk (efs on
>
> > sda1, btrfs on sda2). Then, after install,  I added  a sdb disk (vfat on
>
> > sdb1, btrfs on sdb2) and I did  btrfs balance.
>
> >
>
> > As /dev/sda is now old, I want to change it. I know btrfs procedures but
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> > I do not know grub procedures.
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> >
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> > I suppose I should install "some grub thing" on sdb1 and inform the
>
> > system to boot on sdb1. How to do that ?
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> >
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> > Is there a good tutorial that I have not found ?
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> >
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> > Is it possible to have a system booting automatically on sdb1 if sda1
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> > fails ?
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> >
>
> > In fact I did add later an identical sdc disk...
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>

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How do I change disk ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2022-01-11 04:50 +0100
  Re: How do I change disk ? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-01-11 11:30 +0100
    Re: How do I change disk ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2022-01-11 17:30 +0100
      Re: How do I change disk ? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-01-11 20:10 +0100
        Re: How do I change disk ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2022-01-12 10:50 +0100
      Re: How do I change disk ? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-15 20:20 +0100

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