On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Gmail *sucks*, because it screws up reply nesting. I have to > manually fix it so that people (including me) how use sane MUAs can > read it properly. > > On 05/20/08 21:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote: >>>> Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the >>>> CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of >>>> porting installations between hard disks. >> >>> In a similar vein to OP's question, I am going to buy a new boot >>> disk, because my hda is old enough -- and drives are cheap enough -- >>> that I'd rather replace it before it fails. >>> >>> So I checked out CloneZilla, but it seems to be aimed at >>> institutional use. Even partimage seems to need an intermediary step. >> >>> Is there any way to directly clone /dev/hda to /dev/sdX, so that I >>> can then boot off of /dev/sdX? >> >> If you can boot some live system, you can just partition your new disk, >> mount them all, copy all your files over, fix /etc/fstab and > > I've tried doing what you suggest, but cp leaves absolute symlinks > still pointing to the original files on the source device.
If you use "cp -a" you overcome this problem... See: http://tronprog.blogspot.com/2007/05/clone-partition-with-cp.html Only problem is /proc, which can't be copied, the directory needs just to be created and left alone... My only problem with this approach is that I couldn't make grub to boot. I tried both grub-install approaches, 1st using /dev/sda as the device) and --root-directory=/mnt/sda6, and then using the chroot after doing all necessary bindings... None of them worked for me... There's one left which is unmounting hda6 (my old HD boot partition) from /boot and mounting sda6 (my new HD boot partition) on it, using still /dev/sda, to see if that works, this is the only one thing I haven't tried with the "cp -a" approach... >> /boot/grub/menu.lst, mount the new boot partition at /boot and run >> grub-install /dev/sda. With this approach, you are free to change your >> partitioning scheme. >> >> Alternatively, if your new partitions have the same layout but larger, >> then you can use dd to clone each partition individualy, do a resize2fs >> on each of them, then fix fstab and menu.lst before running a grub-install. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
