Hi,

I actually bought a 1.5TB HD which should replace my 320GB one.

Which tool is the best one to clone my system from the 320GB HD to the 1.5TB one in an easy and straight forward way.
The filesystem is ext4 and the OS is Slackware64 13.1.


integrale

Take a look at clonezilla
http://clonezilla.org/

Kind regards

After cloning it with clonezilla, do I have to boot from a SlackwareDVD with giving the new hard disk partition as the root partition at boot promt and execute lilo afterwards?

I use rsync.
If you do not want verbose output, leave out the "-v --progress" part. I "stole" the basic code from piratesmacks post in this thread, dressed it up a little & wrote a bash script to backup all the partitions on this machine. There are a lot of programs out there to clone/backup a partition, but you really don't need any of them.
Regards,
Bill

rsync is definitely one of the easiest and most flexible ways to do something like this.

I just finished upgrading a hard drive this way. I installed the new drive as the secondary drive, partitioned it, formatted it, and mounted it. Then I used:

rsync -vaxH / /path/to/new/drive

The only small problem is that the boot loader won't be properly installed on the new drive. This, of course, is only a problem if you are cloning your root partition. The solution (after removing the old drive) is to boot from a Slackware install disk or USB key, and follow the recovery instructions on how to boot the existing, installed system. Once you've booted the system this way you can run lilo to properly install the boot loader. If the new drive doesn't have the same device name (i.e. /dev/sda) as the old drive you will have to edit lilo.conf.

Sincerely,
Mike R.

@Lirey
I actually cloned my root partition.

Following the suggestion from repo, I cloned it with Clonezilla.
And it was really easy and straight forward. Clonezilla also copied the boot loader right in place, so that I didn't have to adjust anything.

Writing this reply, my system is already running from my new hard disk :-)

I'm really happy with the way it worked and the result.

@integrale16: I'm glad you found a good solution. You should mark the thread SOLVED, via the "Thread Tools" button on top of your first post.
Regards,
Bill

Yep...Clonezilla is indeed an invaluable utility.

If you are still searching for answers.... Clonezilla! All the way. I use it to perform quarterly clones of my system (not my user files) and also when I need to clone hard drives or partitions... Used it about 50 times in the last 2 years and it always did the job perfectly.

If you were using lvm, however, you could simply add the new disk as a physical volume and run the command: You can use your system while the command is running.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/

Better than clonezilla.