Hello,
I was wondering if anyone here could give me some advise on a potential issue.
This morning when I was updating my OMV box I noticed a "mildly nasty sound" coming from my rig.
I had a look under [DISKS] and the OS disk showed a red dot, and when hovering over the dot it says "A few bad sectors" or something similar. So I guess the drive is dying...
Now I have a spare disk and I was thinking of cloning the OS disk ASAP, but before doing that I have a couple of questions:
1. Anyway to tell if any data (conf files etc) have been corrupted on the OS disk?
After updating I restarted and it booted just fine, and everything seems to be working (still).
But I was thinking that if "half of the data" is corrupted I might as well do a clean install, rather than dealing with broken configurations and packages later on.
So anyway of checking this?
2. If I clone the device with Clonezilla (device-device) and I do not screw things up, should I be able to just replace the old harddrive with the new one after cloning?
I guess I need to change the boot device in the BIOS, but other than that I guess it is supposed to "just work" (all the GRUB settings and stuff like that are also cloned over to the new drive, right)?
Any other things to keep in mind?