Topic: Cloning disk

[alan]

Anybody have any ideas on how to clone a hard drive or to expand the current one. Thanks in advance

[Graeme Fleming]

Add second drive, partition it, then mount it onto a folder on your master drive and use it for the bulk of your data.  If you want it to automount on boot (absolutely if your using it in this fashion) then you will need an entry in /etc/fstab.

If you use this drive to hold all of your /home/e-smith/files data your master drive will consume little space as most systems hold a majority of their data in or under the files folder.

Purging old log files can also be used to free up space on the master drive (/var/log/).

HTH

[guestHH]

http://www.tech-geeks.org/article.php?story=20030507102947786

[Ray Mitchell]

If you mean by cloning, to make an exact copy, then Norton Ghost works wonderfully. I'm using 2003 and it works great. Clone to another hard disk or an image to CD(s). You can also clone a smaller hard disk to a larger hard disk, Norton takes care of the partition sizes automatically. I have used it on sme 5.5 & 5.6 quite successfully to move to a larger hard disk.

Regards
Ray

[Trevor B]

If you want Open Source alternatives to ghost etc.

I have used both parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/) and partimage (http://www.partimage.org/) for partition copying, saving and restoring partitions on e-smith since 4.1.2.

My 'quick' full backup is a clone of the drive via parted onto a removable HD.

Trevor B

[ryan]

I have read about g4u (ghost for unix) that uses a linux boot floppy or CD and an ftp server (linux or windows) and it is open source on sourceforge.

good luck

ryan