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I might partition the new drive the same (or similarly) as the old
drive, and format each partition as desired. I would then use rsync
to transfer the data from each partition (file system) from the old
drive to the new drive. I would then try to repair any known broken
files on the new drive. You might need to adjust UUID values for
the drive/partitions for mounting. I tend to prefer rsync over dd,
because it only copies the parts of the disk that have actual data
and it does respect bad blocks on the new drive that
partitioning/formatting might find and mark.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If I use rsync instead of dd or dd_rescue, how do I make the new drive bootable? The MBR will be wrong. I guess after copying the files I'll have to boot cautiously from the old drive BUT mounting the right partitions on the new drive and then do some kind of grub-install...<br><br></div><div>Anyway, after all that, and after repairing broken files (if it works), would you leave it at that or would you try to restore a db backup?<br></div></div><br></div></div>