Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On October 10, 2005 09:04, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
...
New problem. I have a new HDD, I would like to move every thing from the
old hdd to the new one.
what is the best way to clone my BOOT drive? so that the new drive boots
as well
It's a dual boot 2005LE / WinXP
...
There are two problems with this - the first is that the drives must be
the same size/geomitry, or you will run into problems. Second, it will
take a long time, as it will copy empty space as well as data. Thirn,
coping a "live" file system is not a good idea. If you are going to use
this method, you should boot from a "live" CD version of Linux, or at
least drop to the single user mode.
A better method is to use Ghost4Linux. ftp://fedoragcc.dyndns.org/ You
can download the bootable CD image and burn it.
Mikkel
You can also do it with tar, though you have to be careful with your mount
points. Say for example you've mounted the new drive on /mnt/new, you can do
(as root of course):
cd /
tar cvf --exclude=/mnt/new - . | tar xvf --directory=/mnt/new -
There might be other directories you want to exclude also, such as /proc
(don't know if copying it will do any harm, but there's certainly no point).
When you're all done, adjust your mount points appropriately.
Alternatively, you could do it one main directory at a time:
cd /
tar cvf - boot | tar xvf --directory=/mnt/new -
tar cvf - etc| tar xvf --directory=/mnt/new -
...
You can also omit the "v" options if you want. This just makes it print the
name of every file transferred. I like to see what's going on as it goes. But
you might not like to watch a few thousand lines scroll by too fast to read.
You still have the problem of the boot loader. If you copy this way,
then you need to boot from the install CD in the rescue mode, and use
the re-install the boot loader option.
Mikkel
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