Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-07 Thread Mike Brown
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:44:06PM +0800, KHMan wrote: > Some random notes. fsarchiver also allows for flexibility on size. But I > have mostly used partimage from systemrescuecd in practice for the bootable > partition, for: (a) moving from IDE to SATA, (b) moving from SATA to a > larger SATA,

Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-06 Thread LMH
I don't know if this is what you are going to try, but if you change the of the partition on the src drive to something small enough to fit on the new drive, you can use clonezilla to clone the partition instead of the whole drive. Just make the partition on the new drive the same size or a bit

Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Brown
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:44:06PM +0800, KHMan wrote: > Some random notes. fsarchiver also allows for flexibility on size. I'm downloading the iso for SystemRescueCD, which contains fsarchiver. I just might be able to use fsarchiver to do the trick. Thanks for the tip. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vi

Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-06 Thread KHMan
On 11/6/2011 10:35 PM, Mike Brown wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 09:19:52AM -0500, LMH wrote: I think you want to use a disk clone to do this, something like the clonezilla live CD. As long as the drives are the same size, or the target drive is larger, clonezilla will just copy one drive to the

Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Brown
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 09:19:52AM -0500, LMH wrote: > I think you want to use a disk clone to do this, something like the > clonezilla live CD. As long as the drives are the same size, or the target > drive is larger, clonezilla will just copy one drive to the other. It does > a bit by bit clon

Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

2011-11-06 Thread LMH
I think you want to use a disk clone to do this, something like the clonezilla live CD. As long as the drives are the same size, or the target drive is larger, clonezilla will just copy one drive to the other. It does a bit by bit clone, so it doesn't care about files and permissions and such.