[CentOS] transfer data from one hard drive to another

[Max H.]

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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

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