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On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you |
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> just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original |
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> drive and then... |
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> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 |
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> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 |
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> so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just |
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb |
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> Wouldn't that work? |
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The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. |
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The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while |
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as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. |
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Things like clonezilla just copy the "used"/active sectors. |
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A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact |
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syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition |
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information directly between two drives. |
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Then use rsync to move the data across. |
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You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. |
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