Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

[Stroller]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 11:20 pm, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:50:22PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
>> intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it
>> from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I
>> can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had
>> changed.
>
> If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old
> you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd
> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be
> able to boot directly off of the new drive.

Presumably this copies the boot sector & the main partition data 
correctly, but what about the "whitespace" at the end of the drive?

The reason I ask is that a local pension wants his Windows partition 
copied to a new, larger hard-drive. Will `dd` work? Can I just use 
PartitionMagic (boo! hiss! proprietary software! hiss!) to resize the 
partition to take up the full drive once I'm done?

Normally I'd use something like Maxblast http://tinyurl.com/5ppq4 or 
Data Lifeguard Tools http://tinyurl.com/97zw7 for this but the guy's 
new drive is a Samsung & they don't seem to do such a utility.

Stroller.

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