I have used tar to back up both windows and Linux file systems. I have also successfully used tar to copy not only Linux partitions but also Windows partitions. Making a disk image is not a good idea if you want to resize the partitions. The dd utility can be used to do this though. Cpio, cp, and rsync can also be used as well as dump. The only caveat is setting up the boot sector. You need to make sure that you run LILO on the new drive, and that your /etc/fstab on the new drive reflects the correct information. On 4 Apr 2002 at 12:01, Nick Selby wrote:
Hi, all, At the behest of several of you yesterday I have begun thinking about a new hard drive for my machine.
(I still have one doubt: I know that right before this problem started
Directory 1041166: bad FAT Filesystem panic (dev 03:02) FAT error)
the Windows &!^@*!^ ME on the machine's other partition crashed and I had to shut off the power to the machine to get it to restart. That makes me wonder whether this is actually a physical hard drive problem or simply a problem of rude Windows trying once again to take over everything in its way. Any opinions on that anyone?)
Anyway the point of my question is this: how can I make a disk image of the linux portion of the disk as it is now to copy onto the new disk. The machine is on a network, and I have a hard drive on the network that has 10GB free (enough to capture, I would guess, an image of the 6.6GB that I'm currently using on my /dev/hda8
Can anyone point me to a step by step how to of disk imaging or point out some things to be careful of?
Many thanks in advance (and thanks again to everyone for yesterday)
Nick
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