2011-11 - using guidedogh (B75M-DH3) make clone on of it's harddirve to be a shelf spare incase of a summit hardisk failure for bigdog or guidedog. Bigdog & Guidedog uses the same B75M-DH3 motherboards. Current bigdog/guidedog running CentOS 6.6, 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.i68 guidedogh is a restore of a bigdog zdump, see: 1903-restore.html Parition scheme (same as bigdog/guidedog) /dev/sda1 40G 6.2G 32G 17% /r1 generic centOS or empty /dev/sda2 40G 7.8G 30G 21% / boot partition for CentOS 6.6 /dev/sda3 40G 48M 38G 1% /r3 empty /dev/sda4 341G 3.9G 320G 2% /aux empty, used misc storage/junk. Clonezilla Create a clonezilla usb drive Downloaded clonezilla-live-2.7.3-19-amd64.iso Used rufus-3.4.exe to write the image to my usb stick. Clone Attached new disk (500GB WD5003AZEX) to guidedogh SATA2-#1 port. Boot with clonezilla live via usb, device-to-device option Beginner mode local_disk to local_disk clone sfck (skip checking sectors - we know disk is good). Test the new disk by boot it up. The labeled and package the disk. - will use it as a bigdog replacement. Bigdogh returned to its orginal setup. 2021/12 - Replaced the bigdog disk Used the disk to replace bigdog's disk (seeing sector errors) on 2021-12-17. Setup the hostname, and IP as bigdog: 1. boot up the guidedogh disk. 2. set network configuration to bigdog before shutting down: /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 2021-12-17 - created a new guidedogh clone as a shelf spare.