Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[DanBarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Danny Barnes)]

I've used Drive Image to copy partitions from one hd to another on a hd that
had Windows98 & Red Hat Linux on it. As I recall as long as you copy one
whole drive to another, and do NOT take the "fill all available space"
option, Drive image will work fine. On the other hand I have had little
success moving individual linux partitions with Drive Image; the usaual
result of that is a "kernel panic - unable to mount vfs" message. Sometimes
using the "rdev" parameter on bootup (providing you get a full LILO and not
just LI) to point to the location of the new root device partition worked,
sometimes no. On the whole Drive Image usally works with Linux as long as
you're just copying one whole hd to another, but is very iffy when moving
around Linux partitions. Other things you can use might be Norton Ghost or
Linux's dd.

> I currently have a SuSE 6.3 installation on a 6.4GB hard drive that
> consists of three partitions (/boot,/swap, and /) that I would like to
> transfer to a new 20GB hard drive.  I'm planning to use Drive Image to
> copy the partitions directly over to the new hard drive, and then use the
> unallocated space (~14GB) for a /pub partition.
>
> Does Drive Image do a good job at copying the partitions (no resizing)?
>
> Is there alternative method of preserving an established installation to a
> new hard drive?


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