Re: copying/cloning root partition
On Monday 05 November 2001 15:55, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a
> Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small
> and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a
> root partition and runs without swap. I would like to be able
> to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but am running
> into a problem. I installed the disk from the PC-104 system in
> another regular desktop machine and tried to copy the image of
> the PC-104 system using:
>
> # dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdc1 of=disk.image
>
> I then tried to copy this new image onto another disk of the
> same type as running in the PC-104 system using (obviously
> installed in the desktop machine):
>
> # dd bs=512 if=disk.image of=/dev/hdc1
>
> The partition image gets copied fine, but when I go to boot up
> this copied disk (after being re-installed in one of the
> PC-104 systems) it doesn't finish booting. I see "LIL- " when
> booting the PC-104 system. This, according to the LILO docs
> indicates that the descriptor table is corrupt, caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running
> /sbin/lilo.
>
> I'm confused by this as it seems that the low level copy with
> 'dd' should copy everything. Any ideas??
>
> Thanks...
Just had this posted at my local LUG. I haven't used it but it
might be what you're looking for:
http://www.partimage.org/
It looks like it also supports a variety of filesystems.
HTH,
Jesse
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