On Monday 05 November 2001 15:55, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a > Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small > and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a > root partition and runs without swap. I would like to be able > to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but am running > into a problem. I installed the disk from the PC-104 system in > another regular desktop machine and tried to copy the image of > the PC-104 system using: > > # dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdc1 of=disk.image > > I then tried to copy this new image onto another disk of the > same type as running in the PC-104 system using (obviously > installed in the desktop machine): > > # dd bs=512 if=disk.image of=/dev/hdc1 > > The partition image gets copied fine, but when I go to boot up > this copied disk (after being re-installed in one of the > PC-104 systems) it doesn't finish booting. I see "LIL- " when > booting the PC-104 system. This, according to the LILO docs > indicates that the descriptor table is corrupt, caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running > /sbin/lilo. > > I'm confused by this as it seems that the low level copy with > 'dd' should copy everything. Any ideas?? > > Thanks...
Just had this posted at my local LUG. I haven't used it but it might be what you're looking for: http://www.partimage.org/ It looks like it also supports a variety of filesystems. HTH, Jesse
