[mythtv-users] new drive

[Daryl McDonald]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I installed it yesterday. Gparted froze at
6.84Gbs, I later determined, due to being read only. Firing shots from the
terminal finally got the files copied over, then when the first recording
failed, and I started looking in the BE I noticed the directory was not
writable, and straightened everything out with one more terminal episode

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 4:54 PM Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/24/22 13:44, Simon wrote:
> > Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> As long as the new drive is as big as the old drive, you can create
> (empty) partitions of the same (or bigger) size on the new disk and "dd"
> each partition from old drive to new drive. This will keep everything
> intact including UUID.
> > If it comes to it, you could just dd the whole drive as long as the new
> drive is not smaller than the old one. However, I would recommend ddrescue
> as being far more suitable ...
> > You can interrupt it and it can resume where it left off.
> > If there are any bad blocks, it can copy what it can and leave you a
> list of what it couldn’t copy. If the errors are intermittent, you may be
> able to get everything whereas dd will simply die at the first error.
> >
> >
> Agreed. However, I automatically assumed ddrescue (based on the drive
> age/reliability etc). Should have been more clear. My apologies.
>
> Partition wise copy allows you to grow each partition after copy. Most
> of the time, in my experience, the new disk is significantly larger.
>
> Like others have said, there are better tools for the less knowledgeable
> of disk layout.  I always choose tools whose source code is easy to get
> to, if I ever want to know what it does. So, I go with bare/low-level
> tools than packaged/fancier (and more user friendly) ones. I am more of
> cat/cp/tar/dd/sh type person.
>
> Regards
> Ramesh
>
>
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