On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> Next question:
>
> I have a Linux system I want to replicate a couple of times. There is about 350
>megs worth of data on a 1 gig HD, and I want to copy the data to some 500 meg hard
>drives. None of the disk cloning software wants to let me do this, as my destination
>is smaller than my source. Since I only have 350 megs total (a little in /boot, 64
>megs of /swap, and 300 megs of /), I know this should be possible.
>
> I hooked up my 500 meg drive on the unused secondary IDE port, and used the cfdisk
>program to set up the partitions. Somehow, I managed to mount it (probably the wrong
>way), and copied all data to it. When I tried booting it, LILO was messed, so I
>booted from Floppy. It failed in a kernel panic - can't mount root.
>
> What is the easiest way to copy the data from a linux hd to another hd, when the
>destination is a different size than the original? I can also see needing to do the
>reverse: upgrading to a larger HD on another system. Is this a painful process?
>
> Bob
>
Boot off a floppy distro, or a CD based distro such demolinux,
www.demolinux.com. Then, use cp, mc, or anything you wish to copy to the
new drive, and remember to re-run lilo on it.
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Aug 28
