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

[Daniel]

Hi, how about the following (from my far from expert point of view)-
-Create the partitions on the larger hard disk [maybe put the 20g in as 
Primary master and leave the other disconnected for safety for 
now.  Pretend to install linux, booting from Mandrake 8.1 cd1 and exiting 
after partition info written to disk, but before progressing any further]
-Put the 6g back as primary master and then mount the other drive
-Copy the other stuff across to the correct partitions.
-If you are running grub you should be fine, if you are running lilo you 
will need to boot to a boot disk and run lilo to tell it where to find the 
kernel (is it 'lilo -e -e'?).

If you want to try the Norton Ghost approach it is 'buyware' and probably 
works best with ext2(standard linux) partitions.  I think you will still 
need to resize partitions afterwards.

A linux solution might be http://www.partimage.org/, but the first seems 
the simplest.
Daniel.
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At 11:10 18/12/2001 -0800, Hashemi, Sia 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
> > sitting on the same machine (x86 platform).  I am trying to upgrade the
> > disk and keep the older one off-line for backup purposes.
> >
> > <Please think "Novice" when you reply to this email.  Thanks!>
> > Many thanks to all who read and reply to this.
> > Sia Hashemi


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