[ILUG] hard disk imaging

[cybersean3000 at yahoo.com]

You may want to try copying the source disk into an .iso file.  As an 
.iso file you can move it around from place to place, and you can 
even mount it like this:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso /mnt/iso

I do not know if it will be bootable, you may want to keep your 
rescue disks handy to re-install lilo, etc.



On 21 Sep 2001, at 13:02, Liam Bedford wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:36:21PM +0100, Oliver Ryan came forth with:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'd like to make a copy (image) of a hard disk (10GB) running RH Linux
> > and transfer it to a new hard drive. What's the best way of doing this? 
> > I've heard of Norton Ghost and Drive Image to create an image of the
> > original disk, but these have to be bought.
> > 
> depends on what you want to do. If you can have both the drives in the
> machine at the same time, then just recreate the partition scheme on the
> second drive, and use tar
> (I always end up messing this up, but something like
> tar -cpX /tmp/exclude  f - / | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -)
> where /tmp/exclude has
> /mnt/
> /proc/
> 
> but try this first).
> 
> dd will do the job, but you'll be left with an image, so if the drive is
> bigger, you may not be able to use the spare space (there is information in
> the MBR that will be transferred).
> 
> If the geometry of the new drive is significantly different, you may also
> find the boot sector won't work.
> Make sure you have a boot floppy handy :)
> 
> L.
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