2 x 120Gb onto 1 x 320Gb?

[yungee]

I've been trying to copy a 120Gb A drive plus a 120Gb B drive onto a 320Gb A drive.

The backup / restore pipe dies on me, saying there's not enough space.

I'm using an LBA48 aware disk (various, including the new MFSLive V1.0), and "mfsinfo" is showing the 120Gb pair of drives can be expanded 2 more times.

It's not the end of the world if I go back to my default image with no recordings, but I don't like to give up on something that should work fine.

I've tried:

backup -Tao - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | restore -x -s 400 -r 4 -zpi - /dev/hdd

Also tried it with the B drive disconnected to see if I can just keep some recordings, which the MFSLive guide implies should work.

This way gives me an error about not finding /dev/hdb2.

Any ideas?

[Mike Jones]

Sounds like the same problem I had last week. Does it work if you leave the "-x" out? If it does then it is the same problem. Leaving out the "-x" means the hard disk doesn't expand. But if this is the case then if you email the guy at MFSLive he mightl give you access to the beta version of his software which has a "-f" that you use instead of "-x". You also need to add a "q" before "Tao" - not sure why.

I think you need both disks connected as one won't work without the other.

[yungee]

Cheers for the reply Mike. I was following your thread with interest and thought that might do the trick for me.

I tried it without the -x, with it, with both A and B attached, with just A attached, with "-q" as it was in the MFSLive docs (though that just apears to be a "verbosity" switch), without it ... etc. etc.

You know how it is, you try every possible combination once you get going!

That MFSLive CD is undergoing rapid development, which has got to be a good thing. He only released V1 on the 24th January, and he's already got new stuff in the pipeline. Great stuff.

I've restored and expanded my very early drive image which has 4 MFS expansions left on it. Blank Now Showing of course, but I'll sort that out soon enough. :D

It was a stroke of luck doing the uprade now, because I did a disk check on the two 120Gb drives, and judging by the B drive's performance it hasn't got a long life ahead of it!