Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be > >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place > >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote: I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do "cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is a disk image

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be > >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place > >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro, and then do this: dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda That

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote: > I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. > > Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do > "cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is > a disk image file of the origina