Maybe you should take a look at partimage?

www.partimage.org
Tarjei
ons, 2003-02-19 kl. 18:00 skrev Anselm Martin Hoffmeister:
> Hello gabriel,
> 
> gl> I has assembled this script from others i has found on Internet. The purpose
> gl> is to copy from hda to hdb all the data and prepare hdb to replace hda.
> gl> I would like to know if i am doing think right and what could i add to 
> gl> improve it. Should check the surface of new disk? How is it done?
> 
> I did something similar like this... but for backup-disk same size as
> original one.
> Switch to runlevel 1 so that the disk usage is near-to-none and there
> are only the necessary few processes running.
> Do
>   swapoff /dev/hda3
>   umount /boot
>   mount -o remount,ro /
>     (if that fails, not too bad)
>   dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=4096
>     (might take some time :-)
>   mount -o remount,rw /
>   init 0
> 
> Then hang the second disk in place of the first one, it should
> run out-of-the-box. Could be it needs an ext2fschk on the first
> boot, but not more than that for us.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Anselm                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 
Tarjei Huse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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