[mythtv-users] What would happen if I cloned a working system disk and put it in another system?

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Craig Huff wrote:

> And, yeah, now that you mention it, I think my issues with using dd
> instead of dump and restore (my O/S partitions are ext3) were the two
> show-stoppers of having the target disk smaller and the source disk of
> interest had the /video partition as well as root, /var, swap, etc.
> 
> I'll give the dump | restore process a try and see what happens.

The absolute simplest way I've found to clone a a system is with gparted, 
essentially the Gnu clone of the old Partition Magic program. It lets you 
copy and resize partitions.

There is even a live CD available (since it can't copy the running boot 
partition). If you are cloning a system to boot it's a good idea not to 
have it running anyway.

When gparted won't work for whatever reason, I use rsync to copy the 
filesystems directly. Just remember to pass the -H option so hard links are 
preserved. 

rsync -avPHrSx  /source  /dest


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