[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 9th )

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 08:06:03AM +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,

Hi Joe,


> I just dd (or ddrescue) the old disk to the new disk. Sure it's slower than
> just rsyncing the files, but it's simple.

Yes, that would probably been the smart way of doing things, but I
didn't want to exactly duplicate the disks, I just wanted to refresh the
old one, and copy all of the content.


> If the target disk is a bit smaller than the source disk, you can use
> gparted to bring the source disk down to the right size.

That is why I made sure that I was getting an identical, at least in
size, drive.



> Joe


Brian


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