[ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain

[Jim Philips]

The last time I bought a new hard drive, I went to the source: The Linux
Documentation Project. There is a mini-How To here:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

It covers copying your Linux system from one disk to another.


On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 22:42, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Christopher -
> 
> This seems like it's in the ballpark and may be more sane to use than 
> dd. The only thing is, I'm not really interested in compressed image 
> files of partitions except perhaps as an interim step.
> 
> Would one still use dd to replicate the bootloader?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
> >Jeff, I just recently posted a very similar question, but I didn't get a
> >reply... However, through my research I found this:
> >
> >http://www.partimage.org/
> >
> >It's an openNortonGhost.  From what I've seen so far, it's very complete,
> >it's really easy to use, and has a lot of potential.
> >
> >I'm not sure just yet if you can script everything, but I'm assuming you
> >can.  Anyway, hopefully this will help ya a little bit...
> >
> >-CB
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:hbbs at attbi.com]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:37 PM
> >>To: ale at ale.org
> >>Subject: [ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain
> >>
> >>
> >>I want to get really good at replicating disk drives.
> >>
> >>My objective is to be able to take a given disk drive (not part of a
> >>RAID set or anything like that), hook up a second drive of arbitrary
> >>capacity (as long as there is enough room for all partition contents),
> >>and turn the second drive into a working duplicate of the first drive.
> >>
> >>I will want to retain any bootloader in the transition, to include LILO,
> >>NT/2K's loader, what have you.  The partition table may be different, if
> >>only out of necessity due to the drives being different sizes and
> >>geometries.
> >>
> >>Keeping in mind that I want to be able to go from basically any drive to
> >>any other drive, how should I proceed?  I am sure that dd would figure
> >>into this, especially with respect to the bootloader issue.  However,
> >>what I'm unclear on is how to copy partition contents when the
> >>partitions are unequal on unequal drives.  I know you can really mess up
> >>a drive this way.
> >>
> >>It occurs to me that if I start with a drive with NTFS partitions, I
> >>can't just mount source and target partitions and either rsync or cp
> >>between them.  How could I use dd in such a case?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>- Jeff
> >>
> >>
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