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[Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29.04.05,12:35, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 6:45 AM, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> >On 26.04.05,22:18, Greg Wallace wrote:
> >> I am running SuSE 8.1 on a desktop machine.  The single internal disk
> drive
> >> has 3G of swap and 77G formatted as EXT3. I have a 120G USB attached hard
> >> drive formatted with a single logical partition with an EXT3
> sub-partition
> >> taking up all but what the file system is using to manage it, meaning
> most
> >> of the 120G..  Is there a way, strictly using Linux commands to copy my
> >> working 77G partition to the USB partition?  Could a reverse copy also be
> >> done if I unmounted the file system on Linux before I did the copy?
> >> Assuming it's possible, would my system work afterward just as it worked
> >> before I did anything?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Greg Wallace
> 
> >If you format the USB drive same as the disk drive you can use dd_rescue 
> >to copy all data to the new disk.  
> >http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
> 
> >- Josten
> 
> >-- 
> >Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If I copy every high-level directory to the 2nd drive, do I then have my
> entire system (minus the MBR)?  Are there any components on the disk that
> aren't contained in those directories?  I. e., if I did that copy,
> re-installed a bare bones Linux system, then copied all of those directories
> back, would I be back to where I was to start with?  Can you copy those
> directories back to the system you are currently booted into?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg Wallace
> 
> 
> 

dd_rescue copies all data you have on the disk so that is possible. 


- Jostein


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Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>