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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:58 PM |
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive |
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> Hi, |
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> My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm |
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> thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what |
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> the best solution for this problem is? |
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> I'm really looking for an almost 1 step fix if possible. If I could |
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> get a new drive, put it in the box, and then clone to that drive |
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> directly that would be great. |
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> The system has both Win XP and Gentoo AMD64. The disk layout is |
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> shown below. I beleive the way I shoehorned XP into this machine was |
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> to steal the original boot partition as a small C: drive and then the |
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> buld of Windows is on a larger partition at the end of the drive. |
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> The drive is (I think) only about 1/2 partitioned so there is the |
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> possibility of creating a new partition to tar something to and then |
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> transferring that over the network to some other box for safe keeping. |
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> I've never done this before but would like to do something before I |
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> find myself having to start over from scratch. |
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> Thanks in advance for your inputs. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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The Gparted live cd now has clonezilla incorporated, the claims for |
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clonezilla suggest it would be perfect for your purpose. |
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 |
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link may be fractured in transmission |
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> lightning ~ # fdisk -l |
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> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes |
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> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 7 HPFS/NTFS |
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> /dev/sda2 137 1352 9767520 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda3 1353 30401 233336092+ 5 Extended |
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> /dev/sda5 1353 6216 39070048+ 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda6 6217 6703 3911796 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda7 6704 8163 11727418+ 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda8 8164 9988 14659281 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda9 * 9989 10001 104391 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda10 10002 10251 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / |
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> Solaris |
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> /dev/sda11 10252 14075 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS |
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> /dev/sda12 14076 15292 9775521 b W95 FAT32 |
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> lightning ~ # |
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