Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)
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On 05/20/08 21:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote:
>>> Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the
>>> CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of
>>> porting installations between hard disks.
>
>> In a similar vein to OP's question, I am going to buy a new boot
>> disk, because my hda is old enough -- and drives are cheap enough --
>> that I'd rather replace it before it fails.
>>
>> So I checked out CloneZilla, but it seems to be aimed at
>> institutional use. Even partimage seems to need an intermediary step.
>
>> Is there any way to directly clone /dev/hda to /dev/sdX, so that I
>> can then boot off of /dev/sdX?
>
> If you can boot some live system, you can just partition your new disk,
> mount them all, copy all your files over, fix /etc/fstab and
I've tried doing what you suggest, but cp leaves absolute symlinks
still pointing to the original files on the source device.
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, mount the new boot partition at /boot and run
> grub-install /dev/sda. With this approach, you are free to change your
> partitioning scheme.
>
> Alternatively, if your new partitions have the same layout but larger,
> then you can use dd to clone each partition individualy, do a resize2fs
> on each of them, then fix fstab and menu.lst before running a grub-install.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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