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 4.43) id 1EAwpr-0007AI-LI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:43:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81Lcd7N032155; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:38:39 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81LYSKE024472 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:34:29 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id g2so52254nfe for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ihha9jpGbI96oGaZwRYRPjXtGa3cJMuVFAbgkdCBKErVGJg6LeSUh0hkOqnKx3Ds39J0sCs3BTLyOYTot5XOYUVPg1OVpyH34vdaHrINzK4fKXkuXvQA6WEvYHpsPM7FXjMitQy7EMJ2vUUOl40Ojr6i/4HwWxvpM1+rRluTBbQ= Received: by 10.48.161.19 with SMTP id j19mr62296nfe; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.144.9 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100 From: Stuart Howard To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j81LYSKE024472 X-Archives-Salt: 59772801-fc42-4993-a6ff-406b0e7c3374 X-Archives-Hash: 1ec2cf76fa34d5402efd6f2bf926bbfd Hi Long story short - power outage damages hard drive - under liveCD data can still be read [phew] - comp will not boot from damaged hdd - man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS - installed new hdd | /dev/hda - old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 = /swap, hdb3 = /root reiserfs] My question :- I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused to boot, sensed that I had been too obvious so after much googling I have looked into parted though with no sucess as yet. If someone could recommend a fools guide to this process I would appreciate it, as I am tired somewhat poorer and generally fed up. stu ps. Essential files from Gentoo system are backed up to another machine though not full system and I am loathed to reinstall Gentoo then copy over these files when I am sure there is a better way of "restoring" complete system from one hard drive to another. -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list