[plug] RE: Linux Ghosting from a small hard drive to a large one?

[Hashemi, Sia]

Hello Dennis,
I will grab this info and run with it.  Many thanks for the info.  I will
let you know if I was successful.

Thanks,
Sia

-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Brown [mailto:dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:45 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] RE: Linux Ghosting from a small hard drive to a
large one?


Hello, Sia.

At 11:10 18/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
> > Does anyone out there know how to copy exactly what is on a 6 GB hard
disk
> > (running only Linux) to a 20 GB hard disk?   Both of these disks are

You might want to look in the archives on the Plug website.  Around 
mid-August there was a bit of discussion on the same issue.  If I recall 
correctly Leon Brooks mentioned a quite a variety of alternatives.  If the 
drives were the same size then dd could be used (man dd for info) but your 
case is for different sizes.

The Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HowTo 
http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html may be useful 
reading.  Other hard disk info and general documentation is available in 
the Linux Documentation Project for which the (a??) Perth mirror is 
http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/

With a 20 gig drive you will need to be careful that you keep the boot 
partition inside the first 1024 cylinders and you may also need to upgrade 
/ adjust settings in the BIOS to ensure the volume can be booted.

Hope this helps,
Denis