[ale] linux harddrive upgrade utility (similar to MaxBlast, etc)?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Depending on your intended use, cp or dd would work fine.  You might 
have issues if the new drive won't have the same positioning (/dev/hda 
vs /dev/hdb).

The safest way to test this is to copy everything to the new drive, swap 
the drive designation (usually the jumpers on the drive) and reboot.  I 
suspect LILO or grub might have problems, so you then boot from toms 
r/b, chroot and run lilo.

Stuffed Crust wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:14:40AM -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
>>My question is this:  has anyone used this utility with a "linux" based 
>>drive before?  Is it reliable?  Can I use it on a totally separate cpu 
>>from the linux box itself (my linux box doesn't have a floppy drive). 
>>If not, is there a linux utility that I can use to dupe my HD onto the 
>>new one?  I've used partimage (quite a cool program I might add) and dd; 
>>but I'd like to know if I can use this utility for the sake of simplicity.
> 
> 
> I don't see why not.  Usually those tools don't resize, just bulk copy
> the sectors over.  So when you're done, you can use parted or something
> like that to resize your ext2 partiton(s).
> 
> I uses a coimbination of Ghost and parted to replace my old 20G laptop
> drive with a 40G drive, including a couple of ext3 partitions and a
> fat32.   Ghost to image everything back and forth, and parted to resize
> onec it was copied over.
> 
>  - Pizza

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