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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 7:07 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive |
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> On 10/5/07, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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>> > |
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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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> Thanks to you and Dieter for responding. |
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> It certainly looks like it's worth burning a CD and seeing what it looks |
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> like. |
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> With respect to both of your answers I presume that with any solution, |
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> since this is my main Gentoo system drive, I need to not be running |
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> Gentoo from that drive when I do the clone, correct? Any solution |
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> would require me to boot from some other media? |
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> Also, I really don't need to change any partitions sizes but I'm |
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> unclear whether I am responsible for creating the partitions myself? |
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> It seems with Dieter's solution I have to do that. I'm unsure if they |
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> have to be exactly the same size, in the same location, etc. With the |
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> gparted solution maybe it does some (or all) of this for me? |
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> Anyway, thanks for the link. |
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Clonezilla should (if it meets its claims) simply clone one drive from |
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another, duplicating partitions and file systems as maxblast and wdtools |
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used to do. It even claims the ability to clone from larger to smaller drive |
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if there is empty space in the original. |
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Clonezilla and gparted do run from the livecd and ramdisk. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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