What is a good Linux 'Clone' apt or procedure
Which distro you use won't matter that much ;-) Your 500 MHz (Pll or Plll?) won't be a hindrance for most things. I'm connected now with an old Pll-350 and it's quite adequate if not...
My main machine is a Shuttle with Debian 3.1 but is on a hard drive that is too small. I have purchased a Seagate 400gb on sale an want to transfer the contents from the old to the new. The Shuttle only supports one drive but I have an older machine on the same network that I can put the new drive into temporarily for imaging-ghosting-cloning.
I would rather not do the whole new install again since a Shuttle is not exactly the easist thing (for me) to get ethernet, sound and all working. It took a couple of weeks the first time trying to make the kernel work with the Nvidia drivers and for a couple of business reasons I can't chance the machine being out of service at the present time while I try to follow my notes to do it again. I like to hack on Linux but I have to use it right now.
A clone is what I want to do then move the cloned drive into the Shuttle. I can ghost it over the network with any one of several varities of ghost. But it always copies the parbreastions also and I wind up with a large hard drive with the same old small parbreastions. Using a couple of parbreastion sizers like Resize-Reiserfs to expand my parbreastion after it is ghosted always kills the drive and places an NC in the boot field of the parbreastion. I have found a couple of links saying that resize doesn't work on very large drives.
There is about 43 gig of stuff on my original drive. Trying to use Partimage to get an image over works fine until it gets to about 18 gig then blows up. Don't know why on that since I can't google up any type of limit anywhere around 18 gig. There is no physical limit since I can cp the data over and it all goes - sort of.
I have tried a plain cp -a (and -abcwxyz) but I always get zillions of broken links. However, I can't say yet that cp can't be used to do a clone transfer, so to speak.
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:35:16 -0800, hdneto17 Can you put another 256M into the machine?, with 384 you can run anything. I did the same...
I am not worried about the MBR since I can use a Knoppix live CD to put it back if it doesn't go over.
Anybody know of a utility to do what I want? Or a procedure? Or just what I am missing?
Thanx to any Diff
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