Thats an interesting point... I have a spare 8 gig hard disk here..
I was toying with the idea of setting it up with all the packages and settings I use accross our network.. as an example: ext3 all round. postfix=>amavis-new=>spamassasin/Trend filescan and the dozens of modules compiled to get it all working. it takes ages to set this all up over and over again.. would be great if I had the base install on my 8gig drive, and could use something to mirror it over to another drive.. I don't care about the partition size, I could resize them myself easily enough if I need to. I just get sick of setting up the same type of box's over and over again... One of these days I will play with making my own rpms.. so I could just install them all in one hit.. but right now I don't have time to do that.. (incidently, how hard would it be to make a single rpm that would install all my spamassasin/amavis-new/filescan stuff???) I only know perl and the basics of ansi c++, so I don't know if I have the required knowledge to do it. any tips? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva Sent: Friday, 13 December 2002 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] clonning HD Thank you Peter, However, with dump/restore I couldn't change my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs, could I? Then here is my proposed mini how-to and, please, see if it's right: 1- Install new bigger HD 2- Format (with reiserfs in my case) and mount it 3- copy whole old HD to the new one (but how? With a simple 'cp', 'cpio', 'dd' or 'dump'?) 3- Run 'mkinitrd' and lilo 4- Pray I would ask to anyone else look too this, please. Bye, On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Peter Stokes wrote: > Hi Alan > > dd will only copy block for block normally, so if you are copying from a > 40Gb disk to an 80Gb, the resulting filesystem will still only be 40Gb. > > Much better to use dump/restore etc and reinstall LILO etc to transfer it. > The other benefit dump/restore is each file is treated as such, rather than > just a bunch of disk blocks which is a good check that the filesystem > consistency is good. > > If you just want to clone same size disk to disk then you can use dd as a > short cut, but if you have time go the dump route. > > Just my 2p worth, but has worked for me over many years. > > Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Wilter Sousa > da Silva > Sent: 13 December 2002 11:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] clonning HD > > > > Hi List, > > I have an idea about how 'dd' can be powerful. However I don't > know if it's able to clone my HD to another bigger size one. > > If so, how could I do it? > > If not, could someone suggest me a programme or something to clone > a HD with data and whole OS to a new one > > Many thanks in advance, > > Cheers, > > ----------------------- > Alan Wilter S. da Silva > ----------------------- > Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica > Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho > Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > > > > > -- ----------------------- Alan Wilter S. da Silva ----------------------- Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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