[NCLUG] hard disk copy

[Stephen G. Smith]

Will this help you?
I love this program.
http://www.partimage.org/

Cheers,

Stephen G.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
>Daniel Herrington
>Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:40 PM
>To: nclug at nclug.org
>Subject: [NCLUG] hard disk copy
>
>
>What's an easy way to copy my entire two partitions (/ and /boot) from 
>one hard drive
>to another?  In the past I've used "rsync -av ...", but I thought 
>there's got to be an easier,
>more foolproof way.  The last time I copied it the grub stuff never 
>worked right.  Maxtor
>has something called Max-Blast that will partition a new drive 
>and copy 
>the old drive's
>contents onto it, and it works great for Windows.  I don't 
>trust it for 
>Linux partitions, and
>it only works if you have at least one Maxtor drive in your 
>system.  The 
>two I've got in
>the system are an IBM and a WD.
>
>E.g.: Is there a floppy disk image that you can boot and tell 
>it to copy 
>/dev/hde1 to /dev/hdg1
>and /dev/hde2 to /dev/hdg2?
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel Herrington
>
>
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