cloning drive

[Greg Booth]

On 7/4/07, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tim M wrote:
> > Is there a way to clone a drive in Kubuntu. I want to move my copy, on
> > the same machine, from a 10 gig hard drive to a 40 gig hard drive. I
> > know with Ghost, and other software, I can clone for installation. Is it
> > possible in Kubuntu and how is it done? Tm

I think you're looking to move the actual data since Ghost is data
copying software, not re-imaging software... well, it does both sorta.
Anyway with Linux you can copy files using cp and get the whole
operating system without having to worry about weird things like
registry files. It will look SOMETHING like this ( anyone else, please
jump in here I've never done this )

sudo cp -R -P -p / <destination

This gives you
-R means recursive, do everything under the root drive
-P means don't follow symbolic links, leave them as is
-p means preserve ownership and file permissions

I'm not sure if there's anything else that needs to be done, this is
one of those things I've though about how to do, but never done.

Greg Booth