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Diggory Laycock · Dec 1, 2004, 04:02 AM

Probably a very simple question:

I'm rapidly running out of room on the original 10Gig drive on my server-style machine.

I've got a much larger drive arriving today and am wondering the best way of moving to the new drive.

I really don't want to re-install the OS from scratch (lots of custom unix stuff installed) - and the host machine is a 'Yikes!' G4 - so will not boot from FW or do FW target mode.

Can I 'clone' the 10gig drive onto the larger new drive?

I have a FireWire box that I could put the old (10gig) HD into if this makes things easier.

Diggory Laycock · Dec 1, 2004, 04:10 AM

Hmm - should have googled first:

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

Tyler McAdams · Dec 1, 2004, 04:19 AM

Yes... use carbon copy cloner to clone a new drive. If you have parallel ata then all you have to do is install the second drive as a slave drive and then use CCC to clone the drive.

Alternately, you could install the second drive and just move the directories to the new drive.

JLL · Dec 1, 2004, 04:36 AM

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Hmm - should have googled first:

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

Or use the Restore function in Disk Utility

Diggory Laycock · 05:00 AM

Restore look interesting:

Can I 'restore' the boot disk to another disk - while the Mac is running off the boot disk?

Tsilou B. · Dec 1, 2004, 05:25 AM

If it's a feature of Disk Utility (I have never tried that myself), it doesn't really matter if you can clone the boot disk, because if you cannot, you can still boot off the install cd and run Disk Utility there.

Diggory Laycock · 11:39 AM

Cool - Thanks everyone.

[edit] - used Disk Utility's restore of the Panther CD - worked a treat.

JLL · Dec 1, 2004, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Can I 'restore' the boot disk to another disk - while the Mac is running off the boot disk?

A bit late, but: Yes!

tooki · Dec 1, 2004, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by Tyler McAdams:
Alternately, you could install the second drive and just move the directories to the new drive.

No, that doesn't work in Mac OS X.

tooki

Tyler McAdams · Dec 4, 2004, 01:04 AM

Originally posted by tooki:
No, that doesn't work in Mac OS X.

tooki

you can change the directory's path in inetinfo

tooki · Dec 4, 2004, 01:17 AM

And? Mac OS X still can't boot from a drag-and-dropped copy of the OS. The use of a cloning tool is unavoidable.

tooki

Tyler McAdams · Dec 4, 2004, 01:41 AM

Originally posted by tooki:
And? Mac OS X still can't boot from a drag-and-dropped copy of the OS. The use of a cloning tool is unavoidable.

tooki

What I'm implying is use the new drive just for the directories he needs to have expanded. Use inetinfo to change the path of the directories. Since it seems he's having issues with a server it might just be a couple directories that need to be bigger and not the entire install. Plus having the files your serving on a second disk will boost the performance as well.

tooki · Dec 4, 2004, 09:40 AM

I guess you can, but doing that is a pain in the butt compared to just cloning the whole drive.

By the way, it's NetInfo. (I think you're mixing it up with inetd, which is a part of the networking.)

tooki

Tyler McAdams · Dec 4, 2004, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by tooki:
I guess you can, but doing that is a pain in the butt compared to just cloning the whole drive.

By the way, it's NetInfo. (I think you're mixing it up with inetd, which is a part of the networking.)

tooki

Yeah that's what I meant "netinfo"... I'm used to just using LVM calls on linux. I've only done that with netinfo a couple of times.