<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig Huff</b> <<a href="mailto:huffcslists@gmail.com">huffcslists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been having problems with the swap partition not being recognized<br>on my system, so I was going to put a second hard drive in and use qtparted<br>to format, label, and assign UUIDs to the second drive and then copy over
<br>the contents of the first drive. After testing the copy as a replacement disk,<br>then I would be free to reconstruct the first copy without risking losing my<br>frontend's setup.<br><br>Great theory. I think in the end I used both gparted and qtparted, but it looked
<br>like I succeeded in duplicating the partitioning on the second (larger -- 40 vs.<br>20 GB) drive, but...<br><br>I couldn't figure out how to copy the data over from / to the second disk.<br>I realized a little late that I can't reference a disk device like /dev/hda1 as the
<br>input for tar as I would for copying a subdirectory. Also, I was tired of the <br>awkward position I was working in anyway. Do I need to do a dump piped <br>into a restore to do this? I suppose there's a way to use dd, but I think I've
<br>used dd only two or three times in the 15 years I've been administering <br>Solaris systems at work and now my Linux machines at home. What <br>recommendations do you have?<br><br>(BTW, after I got the second drive out and rebooted the FE again, of course,
<br>THIS TIME it came up with swap working automatically. Go figure! The true<br>test is if it works every time through the weekend.)<br><span class="sg"><br>Craig.
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>I've been using Ghost for Linux (G4L) to take images of my drive. It also has the ability to clone:<br><br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l</a><br>