[mythtv-users] How do I "clone" the HD on a FE?

[Craig Huff]

I have been having problems with the swap partition not being recognized
on my system, so I was going to put a second hard drive in and use qtparted
to format, label, and assign UUIDs to the second drive and then copy over
the contents of the first drive.  After testing the copy as a replacement
disk,
then I would be free to reconstruct the first copy without risking losing my
frontend's setup.

Great theory.  I think in the end I used both gparted and qtparted, but it
looked
like I succeeded in duplicating the partitioning on the second (larger -- 40
vs.
20 GB) drive, but...

I couldn't figure out how to copy the data over from / to the second disk.
I realized a little late that I can't reference a disk device like /dev/hda1
as the
input for tar as I would for copying a subdirectory.  Also, I was tired of
the
awkward position I was working in anyway.  Do I need to do a dump piped
into a restore to do this?  I suppose there's a way to use dd, but I think
I've
used dd only two or three times in the 15 years I've been administering
Solaris systems at work and now my Linux machines at home.  What
recommendations do you have?

(BTW, after I got the second drive out and rebooted the FE again, of course,
THIS TIME it came up with swap working automatically.  Go figure!  The true
test is if it works every time through the weekend.)

Craig.
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