[Wylug-help] PartImage * Disk cloning

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Dan Walker wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with partimage? I need to copy a partition
> from a dodgy HD to another partition on a bigger disk.
>
> PartImage seems ideal, except it seems to require you to store the image in a
> file and them restore from it.

Save to a file and restore to the new partition from the file?

> Or know of any other programs to use?

  gparted

or just use tar

 mount you new partition under /mnt/new (or whatever)


(cd /old ; tar clf - . ) | (cd /mnt/new ; tar xfv - -p )

the l option forces tar to stay in the one file system.

Jim