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From: Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:00:23
Message-Id: 7c08b4dd0710062149p7c7548aai7ba062ea4e17d2a3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive by Drake Donahue
1 This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you
2 just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original
3 drive and then...
4
5 dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
6 dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2
7
8 so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just
9
10 dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
11
12 Wouldn't that work?
13
14 -Peter
15
16 On 10/6/07, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote:
17 > ----- Original Message -----
18 > From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com>
19 > To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
20 > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:16 AM
21 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
22 >
23 > weekend update:
24 >
25 > Gparted-clonezilla link that works (hard to find now):
26 > http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/GParted-Clonezilla-Download-25168.html
27 >
28 > Apparently the gparted and clonezilla folk decided to split and the combined
29 > livecd is being maintained by one gparted guy with a french homesite and a
30 > chinese mirror. Neither providing downloads just now.
31 >
32 > Gparted iso:
33 >
34 > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
35 >
36 > Clonezilla iso:
37 >
38 > http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/download/sourceforge/
39 >
40 > Sorry about the bad info. Too bad the two groups did not continue to link
41 > their efforts.
42 >
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45 >
46 >
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Replies

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive Brian Litzinger <brian@××××××××××××.com>