I use ghost 6 for my setup. It copies drive with ext2 and fat32 mixtures no problem. In fact it is one of the few software that I have bought, it actually does what it is meant to well. I just have a boot disk with the ghost executable on it. Simple.
HTH Dave Original Message: ----------------- From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:47:03 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]How to clone a drive If You need it & don't mind buying software, get Drive Copy. Its from the guys who make Partition Magic. Great s/w so I understand, at least one of the best hardware mags I know of that I buy uses it regularly before testing systems. :) Femme > > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:44, James wrote: > > Ok I took the plunge and bought a monster drive today. Which means 3 4 gig and >one 6 gig drive can semi retire (one retired itself that's why I took the plunge) >What I'm hoping is that there is a way to clone the drive that has my / and /boot >partitions. (I'm keeping the 6 as /home for myself alone) In the windwoze world >there is ghost. Is there anything like that in Linux? Searches on Freshmeat and >google haven't turned up anything in English. (or even french or german that I can >half way muddle through) Anyone here have an answer to how to clone the drive so that >I do not have to reconfigure/install the whole mess (*grin*) all over again. I'm >kinda racing the clock on this drive as it's about 4 years old and starting to get a >bit cranky. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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