Thanks to all that very kindly answer my post.

Is it any software that able to do it? Do I need to (re)configure GRUB on copy HDD?

Yes you need to re-configure GRUB *AND* fstab because in 11.1 the device pointers are /dev/disk/by-id/ which contains the model and serial # of the

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hard drive. Using another drive would not be at the same location. You can update it to be the new disk or you can change it just to be e.g. /dev/sda1,so >you can put the new drive in the same place on the controller and it will work.

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http://www.partimage.org "Partimage will only copy data from the used

I recommend you take a look at Clonezilla. It is a liveCD that should do a quick clone of the drive. It uses partimage which supports ReiserFS: portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to >the image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks."

Andrew, After cloning the HDD, seems I cannot instantly use the 2nd HDD as I should change the Serial Number (part of disk ID). Hope you would help me sometime as I may be get difficulty to try it. Thx & Rgds, Wong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org