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hi guys, if i have this output below when I type fdisk -l
basically it means that there are two hard drive on my system each around 80GB?
Thanks.
root@xoom:/home/xrxs# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73406611456 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 35003 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4096 * 512 = 2097152 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2049 4196336 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 2050 2306 526336 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2307 35003 66963456 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73406611456 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 35003 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4096 * 512 = 2097152 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2049 4196336 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 2050 35003 67489792 83 Linux
Yep, you have 2 identical sized disks (both +/- 73 Gb)
One disk (sda) has 3 partitions, the other (sdb) has 2 partitions.
Thank you so much for your confirmation.
So basically, if I will clone this server and I will restore it to a hard disk with a single hard drive. It will not be restored properly right?
Or I will just put the question in this way, If I will clone this server with two hard drive and the machine in which I want to restore back it should also have two hard drive right? in order to work or make the restoration successful.
So basically, if I will clone this server and I will restore it to a hard disk with a single hard drive. It will not be restored properly right?
Or I will just put the question in this way, If I will clone this server with two hard drive and the machine in which I want to restore back it should also have two hard drive right? in order to work or make the restoration successful.
Thanks again for any input.
Yes, I said cautiously.
In general you need to have the same setup (or larger) as the machine that is cloned. But this might depend on the cloning technique that is used.
A lot depends on how it is set up.
In theory you should be able to move to a different disk configuration and just adjust bootloader and the mounts in /etc/fstab to suit, and be good to go.
Well only because you have cloned the whole disk as one image.
You could also loop mount the drive images and extract the partitions all onto one drive if you wanted.
Don't know if there is any interface options in clonezilla to do this though.
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