Moving system partitions to another disk

Hi. I bought SSD few days ago. I decided to copy my current partitions with Arch and Win7 to this new disk. I followed this article: http://www.nilbus.com/linux/disk-copy.php. And I have two problems.
First of all - I have now more space for system, so I set in cfdisk 40GB for each Arch and Win7. I copied partitions with ntfsclone and ddrescue. What see df?
rootfs 33G 28G 2,9G 91% /
This is size of my old partition. And what see gparted?
size: 37.34GiB used: 32.82GiB free: 4.53GiB
How can I resize this partition to take all this place?
The other problem is much more frustrating - Windows doesn't boot after I choose it in Grub .

ciembor wrote:How can I resize this partition to take all this place?
Resize partition with gparted (or sfdisk or other tool) and resize filesystem with resize2fs (for ext2/3/4). Make sure you have backup.

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I would like to move most of these projects to another disk in the MacPro (there are three other disks), but still want to work on the iMovie projects on the start-up disk.
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You can store Projects and/or Events on an external or secondary disk. The disk must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66613
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6c7c9
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Moving system drive to another machine

Hi there,
I just got a new machine that currently has a bootable system drive. I have moved my old bootable system drive to this new machine as well. When I start the machine the new bootable system drive is the drive that provides the operating system. I would like to make the new drive not bootable so the bootable system drive from my previous machine is the system drive. How can I do that?
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Note that this is probably not possible. Although there are a few exceptions to the rule, in general, you cannot boot from a system that is older than the one that shipped with your machine. If your machine had 10.6.7 installed, it can't boot from anything before that, even 10.6.6. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
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Moving Hyper-V VM to another disk

Hi all, I have read several forums about moving the Hyper-V VM to another disk but I still don't understand on the replication side. I have two physical server running Hyper-V and it's HA between each other with all VM running replication. I have install
a new disk on both plysical machine and both need to move all the VM to the new disk.
Please let me know if my steps are correct.
In this scenario, I have 2 hour downtime so I could power off all VMs:
1) Pause all replication for all VMs.
2) Export the replicated powered-off VMs on the inactive server.
3) Copy it to the new disk.
4) Import the VMs from the new location.
5) Power off the VMs on the active server
6) Export the VMs.
7) Copy it to the new disk location
8) Export the VMs from the new location
9) Power up the VMs and start the replication
10) Delete the old vhd on the old location
Qns 1: Will the replication know the new location on the other server or as long the VM on both server are on the exact location so it will automatically replicate over ?
In another scenario let's say I don't have any downtime and just for my knowledge:
1) Pause all replication for all VMs.
2) Export the replicated powered-off VMs on the inactive server.
3) Copy it to the new disk.
4) Import the VMs from the new location.
5) Failover the VMs to the inactive server
6) Power off the VMs on the other server
7) Export the VMs.
8) Copy it to the new disk location
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11) Failover the VMs
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Qns 2: Will the failover work in this case after I have change the location of the other server ?

1) What Operating System are you running on the HyperV Server?
Win 2012
2) You are talking about HA, but I would assume that you don't have a cluster here. Right?
Yes no cluster here. HA means if one of my Hyper-V is down, the other VMs on the other Hyper-V would take over
3) You are talking about Replication, but I would assume that you don't mean HyperV Replica. Right?
But If you have HyperV Replica running you don't have to export / delete / copy / import /etc. your VMs. This is all done by HyperV replica...
I don't understand this part. You mean Hyper-V Replica could help me to move the vmhd to another disk ?

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Will installing 10.7 and above affect 10.6.8 on another disk or partition?
Will booting to a disk with Lion or above bother disks that are used when the computer is booted into 10.6.8?

abcs04 wrote:
I have 10.6.8 and two hard drives. I am reluctant to upgrade, even though 10.6.8 seems to give me an annoying "outbreak" of the black veil of death from time to time.
I have an external hard drive, but I can't even copy the OS back to the internal hard drive! I'm wondering if it's not allowed.
I was wondering if it's possible to buy Lion and install it on the internal HD, the one without an OS on it. That way, when/if I want to use the software that's incompatible with Lion, I could boot up with the external HD/10.6.8. Otherwise, including when I want to fire up Windows, I'd boot up using the internal HD/Lion.
Is it possible to install Lion on a HD that doesn't presently have an OS on it?
PS- I have a disc for installing 10.5.6 (I think it is), but the machine hangs up if I try to boot off of this disc. That's why I needed to put this external HD into service.
Lion is not available on CD but can be purchased from the Apple Store on a USB slick for about $60 - $70. As far as putting Snow Leopard on an external, then you will need to make a bootable clone of the system using a program such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper! Using Time Machine, I believe, is not a bootable option.
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Moving a folder to another partition

I moved a user's INBOX from one partition to another. Everything went well, except that the Sent folder was unintentionally left on the source partition. I performed this command to move the folder to the destination partition:
mboxutil -r user/<username>/Sent user/<username>/Sent new-partition
It got hung up every time during the process.
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Thank you for your prompt response. My problems aren't solved however. I am dealing directly with a production server and I have no direct authority to restart the server, as you suggested in your previous replies. The only thing I can do is kill the occassional 'mboxutil' jobs that I attempt to run.
What I have noticed now is that any commands I attempt to run against that one problematic user/<userid> do not work. For example,
I tried, mboxutil -c user/<userid>/test --- to create a test folder and that freezes too.
If restarting doesn't fix the hanging issue, then you can simply copy the contents of the old Sent directory to the new one, remove the old one, and runI tried, mboxutil -d user/<userid>/Sent (to remove the old folder, as you suggested) and that doesn't work because again it freezes.
When I tried to run similar commands on another test account, they all work very smoothly. Now I'm concerned that this particular user's mailbox may have gotten locked somehow. My question is, has that ever happened before and if the answer is yes, what can I do to remedy this issue without having to restart the messagin server.
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(final cut pro x 10.0.9 )After numerous troubleshooting tips, I am still getting the dreadful your disk have ran out of space, your events have moved or permissions have changed. This happened after I moved some files to another drive. They won't relink?

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Moving Ircat and Irdata to another disk

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I tried to move the catalog of my 250'000 pictures (lightroom 4.1 - Win7) to another Disk than C:/ (which is quite full) but in the catalog preferencies, it is only possible to view the path ant the location of this catalog. As I manually tried to move the all the "Lightroom" folder (including .Irdata Previews and .Ircat files) I had a blank Lightroom at the next start up. I think that the link was therefore broken. How can I have the catalog on a more capacitive HD than in the default C:/ ?
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No Disks that meet the citeria in the Solaris installer documentation found. Please check the system or try another installation option #

I'm tring to install this on an IBM netfinity 5100 server which has ultra 160 scsi drives.I get this message
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VC

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Moving Systems Between Partitions

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Recording to another disk?

I'm moving from ProTools Free (OS 9) to GarageBand, and have a question.
What is the correct proceedure to get garageband to use another disk or partition to store audio files?
At present I'm doing a Save-As, and saving the song file to another disk, then using that icon to open the song.
David

Because usually your system disk is busy running the shop. You can get away with it for a while if your projects are small, but after a while, things will start to slow down, and audio may not always have top priority over system functions. Result - gliches. If you are a privateer, maybe no problem, but if you are doing it for a living, it would be almost suicidal.
Most professionals have been using a MacPro with several internal disks, system, audio, and maybe a couple of sample library disks. Lately with the advent of Thunderbolt, external disks are stating to be a more reasonable option, which has been bringing the iMacs and laptops more into play.Firewire is OK, but if you are running dozens of tracks with lots going on, as well as a firewire interface, things can start to bottle neck.
if you have the option of only one internal drive, make sure your extermal audio drive is AT LEAST firewire 400. 800 is much better, and eSATA or Thunderbolt is as good as an internal drive. USB2 is not a feasible option for external audio, unless you are only talking about half a dozen tracks, and you don't mind a bit of skittishness.
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OK to use fdisk/100% "SOLARIS System" partition for RAID6 Virtual Drive?

Solaris newb, here - I am configuring an x4270 with 16 135 GB drives. Basic approach is
D0, D1: RAID 1 (Boot volume, Solaris, Oracle Software)
D2-D13: RAID 6 (Oracle dB files)
D14, D15: global spares
After configuring the RAID's w/WebBIOS Utility, I am now trying to format/partition the RAID 6 Virtual Drive, which shows up as 1.327 TB 'Optimal' in the MegaRAID Storage Manager. After hunting around the ether for advice on how to do this, I came across http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1459/disksxadd-50.html#disksxadd-54639
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which is painfully simple: after 'format', just do an 'fdisk' and accept the default 100% "SOLARIS System" partition. After doing this, partition>print and prtvtoc show this:
partition> print
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 59125 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wu 0 - 59124 1.33TB (59125/0/0) 2849529375
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8 boot wu 0 - 0 23.53MB (1/0/0) 48195
9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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* 189 sectors/track
* 255 tracks/cylinder
* 48195 sectors/cylinder
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* 59125 accessible cylinders
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* First Sector Last
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First off, RAID-5 or RAID-6 is fine for database performance unless you have some REALLY strict and REALLY astronomical performance requirements. Requirements that someone with lots of money is willing to pay to meet.
You're running a single small x86 box with only onboard storage.
So no, you're not operating in that type of environment.
Here's what I'd do, based upon a whole lot of experience with Solaris 10 and not so much with Solaris 11, and also assuming this box is going to be around for a good long time as an Oracle DB server:
1. Don't use SVM for your boot drives. Use the onboard RAID controller to make TWO 2-disk RAID-1 mirrors. Use these for TWO ZFS root pools. Why two? Because if you use live upgrade to patch the OS, you want to create a new boot environment in a separate ZFS pool. If you use live upgrade to create new boot environments in the same ZFS pool, you wind up with a ZFS clone/snapshot hell. If you use two separate root pools, each new boot environment is a pool-to-pool actual copy that gets patched, so there are no ZFS snapshot/clone dependencies between the boot environments. Those snapshot/clone dependencies can cause a lot of problems with full disk drives if you wind up with a string of boot environments, and at best they can be a complete pain in the buttocks to clean up - assuming live upgrade doesn't mess up the clones/snapshots so badly you CAN'T clean them up (yeah, it has been known to do just that...). You do your first install with a ZFS rpool, then create rpool2 on the other mirror. Each time you do an lucreate to create a new boot environment from the current boot environment, create the new boot environment in the rpool that ISN'T the one the current boot environment is located in. That makes for ZERO ZFS dependencies between boot environments (at least in Solaris 10. Although with separate rpools, I don't see how that could change....), and there's no software written that can screw up a dependency that doesn't exist.
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3. That leaves you 10 drives for a RAID-6 array for DB data. 8 data and two parity. Perfect. I'd use the onboard RAID controller if it supports RAID-6, otherwise I'd use ZFS and not bother with SVM.
This also assumes you'd be pretty prompt in replacing any failed disks as there are no global spares. If there would be significant time before you'd even know you had a failed disk (days or weeks), let alone getting them replaced, I'd rethink that. In that case, if there were space I'd probably put home directories in the 10-disk RAID-6 drive, using ZFS to limit how big that ZFS file system could get. Then use the two drives freed up for spares.
But if you're prompt in recognizing failed drives and getting them replaced, you probably don't need to do that. Although you might want to just for peace of mind if you do have the space in the RAID-6 pool.
And yes, using four total disks for two OS root ZFS pools seems like overkill. But you'll be happy when four years from now you've had no problems doing OS upgrades when necessary, with minimal downtime needed for patching, and with the ability to revert to a previous OS patch level with a simple "luactivate BENAME; init 6" command.
If you have two or more of these machines set up like that in a cluster with Oracle data on shared storage you could then do OS patching and upgrades with zero database downtime. Use lucreate to make new boot envs on each cluster member, update each new boot env, then do rolling "luactivate BENAME; init 6" reboots on each server, moving on to the next server after the previous one is back and fully operational after its reboot to a new boot environment.

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I want to find out the "standard procedure" for moving my home directory to another disk. My current system disk is getting quite full, so I have purchased additional storage. The issues I am concerned about are the following:
Preserving the file permissions
I have used rsync and ditto commands to copy the file. Does rsync preserve the permissions like the ditto command?
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http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
http://jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/00E03B83-1ADA-406E-A940-396D39F598E A.html

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Can anyone refer me to where it is described that Snow Leopard's Finder does the right thing with these copies?
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Some folks claim to have transferred local backups to a Time Capsule via an elaborate procedure of starting a backup to the TC, so TM makes a sparse bundle on it, then cancelling it, deleting the contents of the sparse bundle, then copying the local Backups.backupdb folder into it. Very cumbersome and time-consuming, not to mention "iffy."
But you cannot merge the backups of two different Macs into one sparse bundle and have it be usable at all. In theory, you might be able to put each into a separate sparse bundle (that's how TM backs up more than one Mac to the same network drive, such as a Time Capsule or shared drive on another Mac).
Is it a requirement that we start the copy from Backups.backupdb?
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Or does SnowLeopard always do the right thing when copying hard links (which is hard to believe).
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