On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:27:47PM -0800, Brian C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
> /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
>
> /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to
> the new drive, remove the old drive,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
cd /old-partition-mount ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/tmp ; tar xf -)
What does the dot do?
current directory
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On Wednesday 07 December 2005 13:01, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> >> 1.) partition the new drive as you want it
> >> 2.) for each partition of the new drive, mount the partition in
> >> /mnt/tmp or something like that, then
> >>
> >> cd /old-partition-mount ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/tmp ; tar xf -)
> >
> >
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Perrin wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote:
Hi,
/dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
/dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
/dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it
to the new drive, remove t
1.) partition the new drive as you want it
2.) for each partition of the new drive, mount the partition in
/mnt/tmp or something like that, then
cd /old-partition-mount ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/tmp ; tar xf -)
What does the dot do?
archive the local directory to the stdout
tar cf - . | ... tar
Andrew Perrin wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote:
Hi,
/dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
/dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
/dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it
to the new drive, remove the old drive, move new dr
I found that rsync does an excellent job of copying the data over. It
can be used with two machines over a network. I used a KNOPPIX CD to
boot each machine (laptops) and then copied the data over.
I should add my notes to my web pages sometime...
- Nate >>
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote:
Hi,
/dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
/dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
/dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to the
new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (prima
Brian C wrote:
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
below will destroy your data. Read on...
Alvin Oga wrote:
[snip]
- if you want to leave bad data behind
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
HERE IT COMES
tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
DON'T T
hi ya brian
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote:
> Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
> below will destroy your data. Read on...
more serious than typo .. :-)
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > - if you want to leave bad data behind
> >
> > mount /dev/hdb1 /mn
Brian C wrote:
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
below will destroy your data. Read on...
Alvin Oga wrote:
[snip]
- if you want to leave bad data behind
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
HERE IT COMES
tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
just watch
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands
below will destroy your data. Read on...
Alvin Oga wrote:
[snip]
- if you want to leave bad data behind
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk
HERE IT COMES
tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk
DON'T TYPE THE ABOVE.
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote:
> /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
> /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
>
> /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to
> the new drive, remove the old drive, move new dr
Hi,
/dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions.
/dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions.
/dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to
the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (primary
master) and then run from the new
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