Fedora Users — Re: change harddisk - Further explain of command lines

dballester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Both hd in same machine

Suppouse that you wanna 'clone' /dev/hda to /dev/hdb

install /dev/hdb

Start the machine in single mode and:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

Shutdown

Extract /dev/hda
Insert /dev/hdb in /dev/hda

Start machine

HTH

David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com

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On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:53, kh wrote:

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.

It seems that i can use Norton Ghost before on a linux disk, anyone ever
tried this?

btw i have redhat 8 on that disk.

kh


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)

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).

  