moving Kubuntu to a new drive

[Geoffrey Mendelson]

I tried clonzilla to move an lvm partitioned disk to a new one. it used various forms of dd copying.
The copy went sucessfully, but it did not boot. Fsck failed with hundreds if not thousands of bad files, duplicate inodes, etc.
In the end I just did a fresh install from the original distribution with no updates and no lvm, It booted properly, I rebooted from the install media, and then I copied using rsync all of the files off the old drive onto the new. i ran grub just to be sure.

Worked fine.

Geoff

Jerusalem, Israel
On May 1, 2019, 7:30 AM +0300, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>, wrote:
> The subject says it all. But a few more details. My 1Tb drive is
> about to die and I'm moving to a new 3Tb drive. The drive
> (/dev/sda) includes 5 partitions - / , /home , /boot/efi , /data ,
> swap. Most of the bad blocks seem to be in the /data partition.
> Needless to say, I have good backups of everything on an external
> drive.
>
> There are many ways to do this and I'm not looking for instructions,
> but "opinions" about what would be most efficient. I've considered a
> few options - but each seem to have advantages and dis-advantages:
>
> 1 - A fresh install and then update configurations and copy whatever
> else I need from the old drive or from my backup drive. (Advantage - get
> rid of old junk, Dis-advantage - seems like a lot of work)
>
> 2 - dd - and then, of course enlarge the partitions and/or add new
> partitions to use the added 2Tb. (Advantage - safe, Dis-advantage -
> there are many bad blocks on the old drive so ...)
>
> 3 - ddrescue (Advantage - may be better at handling the bad
> blocks, Dis-advantage - how safe is this?)
>
> 4 - Clonezilla (I never used this so I don't know)
>
> I'm assuming that after solutions #2, #3 and #4 I would only need
> to switch the sda cable so the new drive would become /dev/sda and
> of course edit fstab to correct all the UUID= lines.
>
>
> I'd like to hear opinions about which of these solutions (or any other
> solution) is best.
>
>
>
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