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Joseph Cheng wrote:
Hello I have an OS installation and data on a 40 gb drive that I would like to image to a 80 gb drive. I don't care if the resulting partition layout on the new drive is only 40 gb making me lose space. I just want to move everything from the older drive because I think it's failing. I have looked at partimage and mondo rescue as imaging solutions but both deal with partitions. CAn someone plz point me to a howto that shows how to image the entire drive incuding mbr, partiton table and data all with one program? I am hoping to boot with a CD to do this while having both drives plugged in. So I think something like knoppix? TIA!
Either boot into knoppix and use dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2 plus whatever other arguments you want passed, or checking out Ghost 4 Linux (G4L). I'm not sure if G4L requires you to have to identical sized drives though.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l
Max