Re: F9: Mounting of drives

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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


They now seem to have something even more interesting.

GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD - GParted and Clonezilla Unification
http://news.softpedia.com/news/GParted-Clonezilla-LiveCD-51328.shtml

~af

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