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
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