Karl Larsen wrote:
Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
mount: /dev/sdb5 already mounted or /mnt busy
The last 2 lines say that /dev/sdb5 is mounted to this Old Hard Drive
somehow. I did not do this. /etc/fsack did not do this. So not sure what
Yes you did. See your opening mail of the thread titled 'dd and cp -a'
in which you say that you mounted it to /mnt, but didn't mention how.
I am assuming you made it permanent by adding it to fstab. And if you
did this, dd'ing the partition would take this setting over to the new
drive.
Guys I am getting a information overload. My question is simple now.
If I do it right is it possible to use dd to make a copy of this F7 to
another Hard Drive?
Also you NEVER mount a partition that your dd transfering too. It
finds it fine.
Wouldn't you lose 10 GB and the disk would appear to be a 20 GB disk
also with dd?
What about making a /boot, a /home, a / and a swap partition on the new
drive, create a filesystem and label the new partitions, then mount the
new / under a /mnt/newdrive directory, create a boot and home partition
on the new / partition so you could mount the to be new home drive under
a /mnt/newdrive/home mount point and then do the same with the soon to
be new boot directory under /mnt/newdrive/boot
Once the new disk partitions are mounted you could use rsync to
replicate your present installation onto the new drive.
I did this once and was fairly successful and got the replicated disk to
start to boot by using the rescue mode to run grub-install on the new
disk. It was a sata drive and the other drive was an IDE so I had other
issues with the attempt. If the target disk was IDE instead of a SATA
drive, it might have worked.
Someone more familiar with rsync and the effects of /proc, /sys and
other not truly directories might be able to answer to whether rsync
would work when transferred to IDE to IDE. I figure the kernel panic
that I got was because of the IDE to SATA attempt.
Using some replication program for Linux would probably be the best
option rather than DD or rsync.
Jim
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