[NCLUG] hard disk copy

Sean Reifschneider jafo-nclug at tummy.com
Sat Feb 15 02:30:54 MST 2003


On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:40:06PM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote:
>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

grub doesn't live in / or /boot.  You'll have to set it back up once you
copy the data over to the other device.

Sean
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