Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive

["Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cloning a system drive


> On 10/5/07, Drake Donahue <donahue95@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
>> To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
>> 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
>
> Thanks to you and Dieter for responding.
>
> It certainly looks like it's worth burning a CD and seeing what it looks 
> like.
>
> With respect to both of your answers I presume that with any solution,
> since this is my main Gentoo system drive, I need to not be running
> Gentoo from that drive when I do the clone, correct? Any solution
> would require me to boot from some other media?
>
> Also, I really don't need to change any partitions sizes but I'm
> unclear whether I am responsible for creating the partitions myself?
> It seems with Dieter's solution I have to do that. I'm unsure if they
> have to be exactly the same size, in the same location, etc. With the
> gparted solution maybe it does some (or all) of this for me?
>
> Anyway, thanks for the link.
>

Clonezilla should (if it meets its claims) simply clone one drive from 
another, duplicating partitions and file systems as maxblast and wdtools 
used to do. It even claims the ability to clone from larger to smaller drive 
if there is empty space  in the original.
Clonezilla and gparted do run from the livecd and ramdisk.

> Cheers,
> Mark
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