[NTLUG:Discuss] Copying Linux partitions

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:17:24 -0500, Brett Grayson wrote:

> Its been years since I've messed with something like Symantec Ghost... 
> but does anyone know if it, or any other program can be used to 'image' 
> your linux partitions?
> 
> I have an identical size drive that I would like to swap with the boot 
> drive on my RH8 file server ... any suggestions? I'd rather not have to 
> rebuild the thing, I'm just moving in a faster drive.
> 
> As usual, any help is appreciated. If you would like, you can argue 
> about ghosting etiquette for the next week :) ... I prefer to start from 
> the bottom of the sector!

If the drive was a different size... ( or if the partimage program from 
the other thread doesn't work ) you could do something like: 
make a boot floppy
mount your new drive, 
format it
partion it as desired ( maybe you want to change the size
                        or type of the partitions ) 
mount your new drive as /mnt/img
use rsycn to copy / to /mnt/img your new drive. 
remove the old drive. 
boot with the boot floopy and re-run grub or lilo

this is what I did to go from a 60Gig /dev/hda drive to 
200Gig SATA /dev/hde drive. 

jack