Jim Cornette wrote:
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
Hi Jim, well the third iteration of a dd to the new drive is
ongoing. So When it is done I will not reboot until I have used fsck on
the new file system. Last time I had big trouble even getting a chance
to check the file system :-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
