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[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,
It's the most elegant solution,
Thanks,
On Jun 2, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Tim Emerick wrote:
> if the new drive is larger than the old drive, you can still use
> the dd method but will need to resize your partition using parted
> or even better qparted once the copy operation is complete.
>
> I'm pretty sure that qtparted is on both knoppix live-cd and ubuntu-
> livecd.
>
> Do the dd and resize from the livecd environment.
>
> Once done, unplug your old drive and plug the new drive into the
> old cables. All should work well.
>
> Tim
>
> Andres Paglayan <andres@paglayan.com> wrote:
> no, they are not identical,
> if I use the tar untar method,
> how do I get the new one to be bootable?
>
> On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:05 PM, MATTHEW BOWIE wrote:
>
> > Oh, if the disks are identical, you can also boot from almost any
> > bootable linux cd, then use:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> >
> > which will do a raw dump of the whole device. Make sure that hda
> > is the old drive and hdb is the new drive or you'll end up
> > overwriting your old drive.
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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