From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Idw7A-00058R-5o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:57:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l95MkLGa022161; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:46:21 GMT Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l95MkKQi022133 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:46:20 GMT Received: from iwillxp333 (c-71-226-99-102.hsd1.sc.comcast.net[71.226.99.102]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <200710052246190110053f5qe>; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:46:19 +0000 Message-ID: <002c01c807a1$88158560$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> From: "Drake Donahue" To: References: <5bdc1c8b0710051358g74f95702rb82a29219d890919@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:46:12 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Archives-Salt: 3a205c83-ede6-4746-b01f-efbf3d25adc5 X-Archives-Hash: 613243045ff7c1cb39fa9764fc0675ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Knecht" To: Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:58 PM Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive > Hi, > My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm > thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what > the best solution for this problem is? > > I'm really looking for an almost 1 step fix if possible. If I could > get a new drive, put it in the box, and then clone to that drive > directly that would be great. > > The system has both Win XP and Gentoo AMD64. The disk layout is > shown below. I beleive the way I shoehorned XP into this machine was > to steal the original boot partition as a small C: drive and then the > buld of Windows is on a larger partition at the end of the drive. > > The drive is (I think) only about 1/2 partitioned so there is the > possibility of creating a new partition to tar something to and then > transferring that over the network to some other box for safe keeping. > > I've never done this before but would like to do something before I > find myself having to start over from scratch. > > Thanks in advance for your inputs. > > Cheers, > Mark > The Gparted live cd now has clonezilla incorporated, the claims for clonezilla suggest it would be perfect for your purpose. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 link may be fractured in transmission > lightning ~ # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 137 1352 9767520 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 1353 30401 233336092+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 1353 6216 39070048+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 6217 6703 3911796 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 6704 8163 11727418+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 8164 9988 14659281 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 * 9989 10001 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 10002 10251 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda11 10252 14075 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda12 14076 15292 9775521 b W95 FAT32 > lightning ~ # > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list