change harddisk - Further explain of command lines
Barry Yu
barryyupuilee at netscape.net
Tue Feb 24 12:38:03 UTC 2004
dballester at kernpharma.com wrote:
>Both hd in same machine
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>Suppouse that you wanna 'clone' /dev/hda to /dev/hdb
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>install /dev/hdb
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>Start the machine in single mode and:
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>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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>Shutdown
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>Extract /dev/hda
>Insert /dev/hdb in /dev/hda
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>Start machine
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>HTH
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>David Ballester Montolio
>Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
>Kern Pharma, S.L.
>www.kernpharma.com
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>GNU!
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>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:53, kh wrote:
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>>My current harddisk is running out of space and i'm going to replace it
>>with something larger, and i want to bring my data with me over to the
>>new disk.
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>>It seems that i can use Norton Ghost before on a linux disk, anyone ever
>>tried this?
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>>btw i have redhat 8 on that disk.
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>>kh
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>If you use the latest version of Ghost you will be ok. The only thing
>that I have found, is that it may affect the Grub MBR contents. All I
>ended up doing was to boot the install CD then boot into rescue mode and
>reinstall grub back to the MBR, then I could boot the new drive again
>with the new partition sizes. Other than that, I found it to work very
>well. (And also works very quick)
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>Wolf
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I am not familiar with above commands like : dd , inset and extract,
will really appreciate if you could further explain so I can understand
how they work.
Besides, my experience in using the CD booting up in rescue mode also
may encounter unexpected problem; After I restored the Ghost image file
back to original partition, then booted up Line CD into rescue mode, the
rescue process for unknown reason failed to mount this original
partition, a message said it has problem, so restore operation failed.
It is better to make a boot up floppy with current o/s, in case the the
CD rescue mode won't work, this boot up floppy will then be a life saver.
I also confirm that when used the partimage to make image file out of a
partition when my Red Hat 9 installed. I had a successful restore
without using CD rescue mode nor boot up floppy, just reboot the machine
and everything is up and running fine - making linux image file for
restore Ghost can't do that, including ver 8.0 (I must use boot up
floppy and then do grub-install).
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