Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine
Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Wanda Round <wandaround@myrealbox.com> wrote:
Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb
total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb.
You'll want to read this, then:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
This needs a little adaptation. Step 5 might be , instead of
5. (cd /mnt/old && tar cf - . ) | (cd /mnt/new && tar xvfp -)
something like this:
tar czC /mnt/old . | ssh thatbox tar zxpC/mnt/new
You will want passwordless login via ssh.
Whether you want compression depends on CPU power, network speed and
your patience.
In general, you _can_ also use dd in like manner. As I recall, you need to
e2fsck
e2resizefs
dd
e2fsck
However, best not to do this with filesystems mounted rw.
A challenge to anyone who says dd won't work: try it. I have done it, on
different-sized partitions. Worked fine for me.
However you get the data across, you then have to
(re)install your boot mangler
Reconfigure /etc/fstab
Reconfigure /etc/network/interfaces
Maybe, reconfigure your modules selection such as for your network card.
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Cheers
John
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