On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:30:41 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a boot > drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot drive.
Clonezilla does the migration job quite well. If the target disk/partition is bigger than the old from where you are copying the data, you can adjust some options when restoring the cloned image to avoid missing hard disk space. > The new drive is about half again as big as the old drive and research > plus several previous answers from this list has lead me to try the > following strategy: > > Use fdisk to delete all partitions including the active one but, of > course do not write anything just yet. Make a new primary partition > whose starting cylinder is the same as the old primary but place the end > point where one wants the new primary partition to end. > Use resize2fs to fix the file system. > > I was able to remove the old swap partition with no > trouble but when I went to delete partition 1, fdisk tells me that this > partition is already mounted and to use umount. It's not mounted but > since /dev/hda1 is, I suspect that this information exists in the image, > making fdisk think /dev/hdb1 is mounted. > > Is there a way to convince fdisk that hdb1 is not > mounted? I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did not follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD and work from there? If this neither works, I guess you can safely re-format the target drive and start from scratch (make a copy first if there is valuable data you can save). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.16.14.32...@gmail.com
