Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Dan Thurman wrote:
>
> Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the
> dd command. It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to
> faithfully
> create the / partition.
>
> So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the
> partition of
> /. How can I do this safely? cp -a?
>
> What I do not want to do is to copy over from /, the devices for
example
> so what is the best method for copying over the partitions esp. that
of / ?
>
> I think /boot is not a problem with cp -a but I have a feeling / is
> significant.
>
> Please advise?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
I have found that using tools like gparted to copy partitions tends
to work better. There is a live CD and a live USB image that lets
you clone the partitions while they are not mounted.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Hmm... interesting. I will try it!
Thanks for the suggestion!
Dan
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