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Re: [PLUG] Need Advice on Cloning A Disk Drive
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Couple things (sorry about the top-posting).
One, always copy from a non-live system.
Two, don't copy /dev and /proc as they should be populated dynamically every boot by udev and the kernel/init processes respectively
(lack of GPG due to message sent via blackberry device)
-----Original Message-----
From: Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:16:18
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List<plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Need Advice on Cloning A Disk Drive
On Sunday 28 September 2008 7:31:39 pm brent timothy saner wrote:
> Casey Bralla wrote:
> > I'm trying to migrate my existing Gentoo system to a larger hard drive.
> > (I've maxed out my 80 GByte drive, but have a 200 GByte lying around.)
> > I'm having trouble cloning my drive to the new drive and would like some
> > advice from the list.
> >
> > Complicating my problem, is that I'm changing from ReiserFS on the old
> > drive to ext3 on the new drive.
> >
> > My questions for the list:
> >
> > 1. Is there a way to copy block and character devices?
> > 2. How else could I (easily) create them on the new drive?
> > 3. is there any other simple way to duplicate a linux disk?
>
> why don't you just copy over all the files (cp -r /mnt/old/*
> /mnt/new/.), chroot into /mnt/new, and reinstall grub to the mbr?
>
That's essentially what I did (several times, actually), but it would not copy
all the files in the /dev directory. I thought konqueror might do a better
job (it didn't).
--
Casey Bralla
Chief Nerd in Residence
The NerdWorld Organisation
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