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Re: [PLUG] Need Advice on Cloning A Disk Drive
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Actually, I often often copy from a live system (did it just
yesterday, as a matter of fact)! Here's what I would do.
1. Install the second drive and boot the computer from the Linux on
the first drive.
2. Create a file system on the second drive (I tend to use jfs as my
standard file system these days - fsck is much faster). Mount it
somewhere, e.g., as /spare.
3. Copy the file system from / to /spare with a command like: sudo
rsync -auvx / /spare/ (trailing slash needed on /spare/).
4. Edit /spare/etc/boot/grub as needed (e.g., changing UUIDs, or
device location).
5. Edit /spare/boot/grub/menu.lst as needed.
5. Install grub on the second drive with something like: sudo
grub-install --root-directory=/spare /dev/sdb (assuming the drive for
/spare is /sbd).
Regards
-- Bhaskar
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:17 PM, brent timothy saner
<brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
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