Can 2 hard drives be cloned into a single bigger drive? - Printable Version
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Can 2 hard drives be cloned into a single bigger drive? - mamed - 05-06-2021
Space is getting a bit tight on my o2.originally I wanted to do a silent build looked at ssds redrock sells scsi ssds for 1200 bucks ouchies. But I think I’ll be going with a cheap 300gb drive. I don’t want to set anything up again or do anything fresh so I’m wondering how to clone both disks in an o2 into a single bigger drive and if that is possible.
I assume I’d have to buy an external scsi cable to do this but if anyone has done this process before please let me know how I would go about it.
RE: Can 2 hard drives be cloned into a single bigger drive? - Raion - 05-06-2021
You cannot clone both disks into a single drive. HOWEVER, you can clone your boot drive, then edit /etc/fstab on the new drive to remove references to your second disk, create the directories on the new disk, and then copy over the data off the second one using something like rsync or just straight up CP - I prefer rsync usually but that's just a personal choice, for something like this it doesn't matter /too/ much.