Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-12-01 Thread Simon P Smith
On 12/08/15 13:57, Andrew wrote: > . > > So I would do it in two stages, first clone, then resize/move the > partitions. > > Clonezilla won't work where the target drive is smaller than the > source, which is a problem I've had with SSDs. > > http://www.clonezilla.org/ > http://gparted.org/ The a

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 13 Aug 2015 09:15:12 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > /etc/fstab will be used once the kernel's up and running; grub can also > use UUIDs, and I think the RAM disk image used during booting can on > some systems too. OK. Working now. Here is what i had to do for my particular setup. I found

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 13 Aug 2015 09:23:42 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I'm off shopping now for a few hours and I'd like to have another go > > at this after lunch. > > "I don't know how I ever found the time to go to work!" Work was infinitely better than going to Tesco! Going off-line now to have another

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Halfway through I realised that Clonezilla can do a direct partition > to partition copy, which is what I ended up doing. Yep, saves a second lot of copying. > Anyone know whether I can mount the disc read/write from a live disc? > I've only been able to mount it read-only so far, bu

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > 1. I plugged both discs into the Optiplex and booted from the old > disc. This worked perfectly. OK. > 2. I used KDE Partition Manager to format the 1TB disc into two > partitions; both bigger than the corresponding / and /home partitions > on the old one, plus a swap partition to s

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 13 Aug 2015 08:34:42 Peter Merchant wrote: > Terry, I would have used gparted to create a small partition on your > original disk, then used Clonezilla to store an image of the other > partitions on to that new partition, Then used clonezilla to bring them > down on to the new disk. If

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Peter Merchant
On 13/08/15 08:03, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday 12 Aug 2015 Ralph Corderoy wrote: You can copy the contents of a partition from one Linux block device to another, but you wouldn't normally use cp(1) to do it. If you're copying the bytes of a partition then the filesystem is preserved along

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 12 Aug 2015 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > You can copy the contents of a partition from one Linux block device to > another, but you wouldn't normally use cp(1) to do it. If you're > copying the bytes of a partition then the filesystem is preserved along > with the owner, etc., of files si

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Here is what I'd like to end up with on the new drive: > sda1/ ext440GB > sda2/home ext4250GB > sda3swapswap8GB ... > I then tried booting into Kubuntu Live and copying each disc partition > as files (I'm not sure it will work for the / partition, bu

Re: [Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-12 Thread Andrew
Hi Terry, The tools I have used for this sort of thing are Clonezilla and GParted. Clonezilla to copy from one disk to another, and GParted to resize partitions. There are live CDs for each, although GParted is in most Linux distros. So I would do it in two stages, first clone, then resize/mo

[Dorset] 'Cloning' a Disk when the Partitions are not identical

2015-08-12 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, As you may have gathered from yesterday's error, I obtained a Dell Optiplex from atechmedia and am now trying to copy my existing software from the old 250Gb hard drive to the 1TB drive in the Optiplex. Here is the setup on the 250GB drive: sda1/ ext438GB sda2/ho