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Okey, picking the one I think is the least likely to lead to a flamewar (except regarding top-posting :)).
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:10:52AM +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
use G4U to clone it to an ftp server or second drive
much easier
I have not checked G4U yet, so I really mean this as a question:
How is it easier ? dump | restore is as straightfoward as it gets. I have been using it for 15+ years, and never had a problem (except for raiserfs filesystems, of course).
Yes, if I were going to produce a lot of copies of the same disk, then I would look for something like Ghost (or G4U, will check it later tonight). But for this particular task ?
Maciej Z.enczykowski wrote:
A> Make bootable floppy B> Start in single user mode C> Create same partition structure on hew drive D> Move all files from old partitions to new partitions E> Switch drives F> Boot off floppy, mount, reinstall grub and boot manager on new drive G> Profit!
well if you want a real quick'n'dirty way to do it then you can simply turn off the computer, hook up the drive, boot with kernel command line init=/bin/bash, watch the messages for info on what device name the new drive got and do "/bin/dd if=/dev/hd{source} of=/dev/hd{target} bs=1048576", once it completes do "/bin/sync" and powerdown, remove the old disk and hook up the new disk in it's place and reboot and usually everything works normally. [it does screw up drive geometry but since linux uses LBA adressing anyway this is irrelevant]
if there are read errors on the source drive you'll probably want to use dd_rescue instead of dd.
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