[Clonezilla-live] resize time

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

  If I need to clone and then resize the
partition, how long does that take?

I think it is basically no time, worst case the amount of time it
takes to write a new inode table.  Below is all the details I have.


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From: Larry Garfield <la...@ga...>
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] Hard drive upgrade
To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical
Discussion" <lu...@lu...>


On Wednesday 12 May 2010 10:26:38 am Greg Neumarke wrote:

> As mentioned by others here, clonezilla has worked for me many times in
> scenarios like this. Create a bootable CD (or USB, try
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net  to do that) from the ISO image and
> connect both drives to a system that can handle the two drives at once.
> You don't need to do this in the current server.
>
> You should be fine selecting the non-expert mode and having clonezilla
> copy the entire hard drive over to the larger one locally.
>
> Then I would turn to the excellent PartedMagic distro, found here:
> http://partedmagic.com/
>
> Create a bootable CD or USB stick and this will give you an easy way to
> resize the partitions to take up the additional room of your new drive.
> I also like the easy access to gsmartcontrol, which is a GUI front end
> to the SMART hard drive utilities. You can run the SMART tests and
> determine the health of both drives. I would run the extended SMART test
> on your new drive before deploying it if you have time.
>
> -Greg

Hm, so I think I'm seeing a slight preference for CloneZilla on this list...
:-)

One question though, is time.  If I need to clone and then resize the
partition, how long does that take?  The last time I did partition resizing
(which admittedly was a long time ago), it was an obscenely slow process; to
the point that it would be faster to reconfigure the entire server and transfer
existing files by floppy than to resize the partitions in place.  Has the
process gotten faster in recent years?

Figuring a 320 GB drive with 200 GB of data cloning to a 1 TB drive, all ext3,
how much time am I looking at, vague ballpark?  Go get coffee?  Go get dinner?
Go get a second Masters degree? :-)

--Larry Garfield
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Carl K