cloning hard disk
Hello,
I would like to clone my Debian Woody system onto a second larger hard disk.
It seems to me that it would just be a matter of cleaning off the second
disk, partioning using fdisk, and then running:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda
where hdc is the drive from which I am copying my current system, and hda is
the drive I want to put this system on.
current hdc partition table (2 Gb disk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 13 52384+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 14 449 1757952 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 450 523 298368 82 Linux swap
How I plan to partition hda (30 Gb disk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13 52384 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 3704 29647957+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3705 523 298368 82 Linux swap
Can anyone see anything wrong with this, or would you tell me anything I
should watch out for? Anything I should find out about my current system
first? It seems that this could be fatal if it is not done right.
Thank you, Allasso
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