[Sussex] Cloning disks

[David Chapman]

Or you could download and run 
http://gparted.free.fr/GParted-Clonezilla/gparted-clonezilla-2.0.iso

Its a live CD
Dave

On Sun September 23 2007 12:36, James Smith wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> I managed to clone a disk with multiple partitions onto a new larger
> disk the other day, and it was a lot easier than I expected:
>
> 1) Boot up an Ubuntu live CD
> 2) Run gparted
> 3) Copy/paste partitions between disks and resize as required.
> 4) Have cup of tea (optional)
>
> Seeing as I wanted to boot with the new disk, I had to reinstall grub,
> but that was as simple as booting up the Fedora CD in rescue mode and
> re-running grub-install /dev/hda on the new disk.
>
> Only thing - gparted can't handle LVM yet, so I had to fiddle with
> than for a while, but it was as easy as adding the new LVM PV to the
> volume group, then removing the old one, then having *another* cup of
> tea while it moved it all over.
>
> For a process that I thought was going to be a world of pain, it was
> very easy indeed. No command-line fiddling at all - just the way I
> like it :)
>
> cheers,
> James
>
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