[gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm
thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what
the best solution for this problem is?

   I'm really looking for an almost 1 step fix if possible. If I could
get a new drive, put it in the box, and then clone to that drive
directly that would be great.

   The system has both Win XP and Gentoo AMD64. The disk layout is
shown below. I beleive the way I shoehorned XP into this machine was
to steal the original boot partition as a small C: drive and then the
buld of Windows is on a larger partition at the end of the drive.

   The drive is (I think) only about 1/2 partitioned so there is the
possibility of creating a new partition to tar something to and then
transferring that over the network to some other box for safe keeping.

   I've never done this before but would like to do something before I
find myself having to start over from scratch.

   Thanks in advance for your inputs.

Cheers,
Mark

lightning ~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           6       48163+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2             137        1352     9767520   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1353       30401   233336092+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1353        6216    39070048+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            6217        6703     3911796   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            6704        8163    11727418+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            8164        9988    14659281   83  Linux
/dev/sda9   *        9989       10001      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda10          10002       10251     2008093+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11          10252       14075    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda12          14076       15292     9775521    b  W95 FAT32
lightning ~ #
-- 
gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list