Re: change harddisk - Further explain of command lines

From: Barry Yu (barryyupuilee_at_netscape.net)
Date: 02/24/04

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:38:03 -0400

    dballester@kernpharma.com wrote:

    >Both hd in same machine
    >
    >Suppouse that you wanna 'clone' /dev/hda to /dev/hdb
    >
    >install /dev/hdb
    >
    >Start the machine in single mode and:
    >
    >dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
    >
    >Shutdown
    >
    >Extract /dev/hda
    >Insert /dev/hdb in /dev/hda
    >
    >Start machine
    >
    >HTH
    >
    >David Ballester Montolio
    >Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
    >Kern Pharma, S.L.
    >www.kernpharma.com
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    >GNU!
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    >On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:53, kh wrote:
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    >
    >>My current harddisk is running out of space and i'm going to replace it
    >>with something larger, and i want to bring my data with me over to the
    >>new disk.
    >>
    >>It seems that i can use Norton Ghost before on a linux disk, anyone ever
    >>tried this?
    >>
    >>btw i have redhat 8 on that disk.
    >>
    >>kh
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    >If you use the latest version of Ghost you will be ok. The only thing
    >that I have found, is that it may affect the Grub MBR contents. All I
    >ended up doing was to boot the install CD then boot into rescue mode and
    >reinstall grub back to the MBR, then I could boot the new drive again
    >with the new partition sizes. Other than that, I found it to work very
    >well. (And also works very quick)
    >
    >Wolf
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    I am not familiar with above commands like : dd , inset and extract,
    will really appreciate if you could further explain so I can understand
    how they work.
    Besides, my experience in using the CD booting up in rescue mode also
    may encounter unexpected problem; After I restored the Ghost image file
    back to original partition, then booted up Line CD into rescue mode, the
    rescue process for unknown reason failed to mount this original
    partition, a message said it has problem, so restore operation failed.
    It is better to make a boot up floppy with current o/s, in case the the
    CD rescue mode won't work, this boot up floppy will then be a life saver.
    I also confirm that when used the partimage to make image file out of a
    partition when my Red Hat 9 installed. I had a successful restore
    without using CD rescue mode nor boot up floppy, just reboot the machine
    and everything is up and running fine - making linux image file for
    restore Ghost can't do that, including ver 8.0 (I must use boot up
    floppy and then do grub-install).

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