From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eal8a-0003Cn-Cn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:29:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAC2RmDk012720; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:27:48 GMT Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net (mra03.ch.as12513.net [82.153.252.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAC2O5og023770 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:05 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044F4D45D3 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra03.ch.as12513.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra03.ch.as12513.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18043-01-8 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (pornpipe.stroller.uk.eu.org [213.152.39.89]) by mra03.ch.as12513.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A41D434A for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <20051111232035.GA10834@vergon.kollasch.net> References: <20051111225022.50248.qmail@web31714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051111232035.GA10834@vergon.kollasch.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <36e08e4e91e3240d23bc8a918970146b@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:01 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk X-Archives-Salt: d9e438ca-77f7-4c34-b2aa-67d49b449de2 X-Archives-Hash: 1dda3524673e4a1a9e57ebbea1994df9 On Nov 11, 2005, at 11:20 pm, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:50:22PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: >> intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it >> from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I >> can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had >> changed. > > If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old > you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd > if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should be > able to boot directly off of the new drive. Presumably this copies the boot sector & the main partition data correctly, but what about the "whitespace" at the end of the drive? The reason I ask is that a local pension wants his Windows partition copied to a new, larger hard-drive. Will `dd` work? Can I just use PartitionMagic (boo! hiss! proprietary software! hiss!) to resize the partition to take up the full drive once I'm done? Normally I'd use something like Maxblast http://tinyurl.com/5ppq4 or Data Lifeguard Tools http://tinyurl.com/97zw7 for this but the guy's new drive is a Samsung & they don't seem to do such a utility. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list