[ale] cloning drive using gparted

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Thank You.  I used something called clonezilla which did the same.

But what you said might work too.  But you are right I want to build the
dest and remove the source.

-Narahari

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 09:11 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > Friends:
> >
> > I created a VMPlayer VM containing Lubuntu 11.10.  It is working perfect.
> >
> > When I created the VM though, I made it dynamically expanding upto 12GB
> > instead of "allocate all space now".  Let us call this DISK1
> >
> > I am trying to convert from dyanmically expanding to "allocate all space
> > now" but I could not do it directly withing VMPlayer.
> >
> > I then created another disk of size of 12GB the vmdk file with "allocat
> all
> > space now" option.  Let us call this DISK2.
> >
> > I mounted both drives and then logged in with GParted and used that to
> copy
> > the DISK1 Partition to DISK2 Partition.
>
> This is actually a little vague here.  Are you saying you copied the
> logical partitions or the entire disk image?
>
> > However when I make DISK2 the only drive and then start the VM it just
> > hangs.
>
> > I am not sure what else I am supposed to do like copying MBR or anything
> > else.
>
> If all you did was clone the logical partitions from the first disk to
> the second disk, yeah, your MBR and bootloader didn't get copied.
>
> I don't think I would have used gparted for this.  Assuming that the
> capacity of the drive images are identical, I would have just used dd to
> copy one whole drive image over the other like this:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16M
>
> That will overwrite your MBR and partition table as well as do all the
> partitions.
>
> If the sizes are NOT identical, you can still do this so long as the
> target is larger (you can expand the partition after).  It might cause
> VMPlayer to expand out the source as you access blocks that were not
> previously accessed but I imaging gparted would have the same effect and
> I imagine you're planning on discarding it later once you have the new
> image tested and working.
>
> > Please shed some light.
>
> > -Narahari
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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