Re: Replacing a HD
Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am planning to replace my 30 gig HD with a bigger drive. At the moment
> this is the way hda is setup:
>
> ~ ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
> ~ # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
> -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
> ~ 1 0x00 1 1 0 0x82 14 63 416 63 394002
> ~ 2 0x00 0 1 417 0x83 14 63 1023 394065 31444875
> ~ 3 0x80 14 63 1023 0x83 14 63 1023 31838940 25597215
> ~ 4 0x00 14 63 1023 0x05 14 63 1023 57436155 1163295
> ~ 5 0x00 14 63 1023 0x82 14 63 1023 63 1163232
>
>
>
>
> My system boots from hda3 using grub. hda1 and hda5 are swap partitions.
>
> Whats the best way to get an exact copy of my two Linux systems onto the
> new drive? I am not so concerned with the two swap partitions, as I can
> create merge them into one on the new HD later.
>
You can clone your HDD using Pcopy (or Ddrescue, although I have not tried
this). First, copy the partition table using Cfdisk. Details at
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Cloning_a_hard_disc .
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Chris.
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