At 15:15 09/13/2005 -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >On 9/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Yes, Both drives can be installed in the machine at the same time. I'd >> be alright with just transferring the image as is and then using the >> tools in SuSE or XP to resize the partitions. Or increasing both >> proportionately would be okay too. > >To copy the image as is, including boot and partition information, just ># dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M > >Your drive names may vary. I think this should take less than 10 >minutes for 40GB. There are more efficient ways do to it, but the >effort to find them could take more than 10 minutes.
While this might work for a Linux system, I'm not sure how Windows will respond. Although since it's a new disk you can do the experiment and lose nothing but some time. However, it will take about half an hour for the dd. I transfer 60GB for my backups in 40 minutes. Because of the Windows migration requirement, you might consider getting (Norton, Symantic, ???) Ghost, which can handle the NTFS resizing. For the Linux part, you can just create the partitions, mkfs.xxx (for whichever file system) and then copy everything over to the right place. Use the rescue disk to rerun LILO/GRUB and your done. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
