Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
You could try this:
Boot up into your Linux install and run as root.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
As far as I know that will make a bit for bit copy of the first drive to
the second. *Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.*
Few questions:
Will that make the new drive bootable?
Will that copy the exact content of both Windows
and Linux partitions?
Will that occupy only the 'source-disk' space on
the new disk or more/less?
Disconnect the old drive. Boot up on the new one. Then use diskdrake
to create a /home partition on the free space left on the 80GB drive.
I would also like to enlarge Windows partitions
from that free space left, as well as to have more
space for existing Linux partitions.
It should give you the option to copy over the existing information in
your current /home to the new /home partition.
Sound good?
Sounds good. What I should also look for, is how
to change (enlarge) the size of the partitions
copied with dd, *before* using diskdrake. I mean,
I would like to be sure that everythings is copied
without losing the data at first, than to enlarge
the existing partitions (if possible) and finally
to use the free space for making /home etc.
Misko
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