> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Diamond [mailto:eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:31 AM > To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' > Subject: RE: Duplicating a Fedora PC > > > Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:24 PM Ow Mun Heng Ow Mun Heng asked: > > > > On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote: > > > > > > > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would > > > be using dd. > > > > What if the source hard-drive is smaller than the newer one? > > Can it still image everything and leave the free space as free?? > > > > eg : 30Gb->80Gb? > > Then, Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:37 PM D@7@k|N& replied: > > > Just a guess here, but I would think that it might mess up > > the partitioning on the larger drive. I.e., you would have a > > 30GB space that matched the drive you copied, with an > > additional unpartitioned 50GB left over. > > Exactly so. dd makes a block for block, (or in the case of a disk, > sector for sector) copy of the input file. Hence the need for > something > like ghost. So.. It would be feasible right? next question, how do I do it If the drive in question is a laptop drive and I don't have any other method of installing that drive? (the laptop only has space for 1 HD per time. :) I don't have a usb2.0 external case nor the modular bay slot for another HD. Would mounting it on another PC (using a 2.5" to 3.5") be feasible? Mount under Windows or Linux?? > > Which BTW, originally started out as a sector copy tool but > evolved into > a utility that understands the filesystems it's copying and > now actually > makes a map of the disk and then compresses the data in a propriatory > format. However, that ability allows it to move data between > partitions > of different sizes. It can even shrink them (as long as the > destination > is large enough to hold the data.) > > Eric Diamond > eDiamond Networking & Security > 303-246-9555 > eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
