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[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,
Someone noted that dd is very slow. Probably explains why dd was still cranking away on my 250gig this morning when I woke up. If you have access to ghost, that's elegant as well (but not free). Apparently you need something newer than the 8.0 that I have. Someone else used 8.2 to copy their ext2 partitions. Ghost can copy/resize in one shot.
Tim
Andres Paglayan <andres@paglayan.com> wrote:
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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