On 2009/11/26 00:15 (GMT+0800) Wong composed:
My SuSE contain no data it runs just as Internet gateway. I only need a fast cure when HDD crash.
I want to make sure (I think it should work) that I can clone the HDD and replace the crashed one, then system will restored.
I have ever cloned HDD (but it was EXT2), and I should do some thing with GRUB.
Now, I am facing with ReiserFS that I never did it yet.
True cloning is done with sectors only, and knows nothing about filesystems. e.g. if you use dd to clone the whole hard disk, then dd just copies all sectors from one disk to the other exactly. If you are unsure, just try it, then shutdown, substitute the clone for the original, and try boot and see if you can tell if anything has changed. It shouldn't have. I do most of my cloning using a shareware partitioning program called DFSee, which can be run while booted to DOS, or Windows, or OS/2, or Linux, or Max OS X. Run under DOS most operations are slower, but often in rescue mode it can be tough to get anything else to boot at all, while DOS is easily booted from any old bootable floppy disk, including one with DFSee already on it. -- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org