[ubuntu-nz] changing your hard drive with g4u

Thu Jan 14 19:21:30 GMT 2010

Bruce:
("basically all it did was dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1") I have no idea 
what that means!

("with no awareness of filesystem") That's right, it's not for 
formatting, it's for cloning. That's what the gparted liveCD, and such 
like, are for. G4u follows the old unix tradition of doing what little 
it does, extremely well. Actually it does quite a lot of closely related 
things well, but I have only ever used it for _local_ hard disk cloning, 
as a liveCD, (same as gparted,) easily and successfully.

There are 100's of ways of doing this, and if one doesn't work for you, 
then you try another. But, when fooling around with hard disks, one must 
take the greatest of care, and always have backups of your irreplaceable 
files somewhere else. Reading the manual is good, too. Also you can't do 
disk operations on mounted partitions, hence the use of liveCDs.

cheers, dvd

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> A gparted live-disk would be a good way to format the destination 
> partition on your new disk. ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ )
> Hard disk cloning can easily be done using g4u ( http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ )
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> Just take extreme care that you clone the old partition to the new one! 
> I also strongly advise, that you back up irreplaceable files to 
> somewhere else first. (... but you do that already, don't you?)
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> Using g4u you can transfer all the information on your old hard disk 
> exactly.
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> cheers
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>> From: Reinhold Pam Muller <papabear- at xtra.co.nz>
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>> Hi ho folks
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>> I am running 8.04 lts as a file server (with 5 other PC's both Win and Linux having access to it) 
>>  and it has a 80 gig hard drive that is now becoming too crowded and needs to be replaced with a bigger HD (something like 500 Gig)
>>
>> What is the best way to transfer all - yes ALL of the data incl Op system  and various extra   programs and settings such as grsync and kron ???
>> Mount it internally and copy everything???
>> Run it as a slave??
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>> Or do I bite the bullet and use a live CD again and then transfer *doc files from the ext back up HD??
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>> Cheers
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>> From: Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>
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>> what I normally do is install the new drive as 'master' and the
>> existing drive as a slave, boot from a live CD, make new filesystem(s)
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>> then mount the source as /source and the new filesystem as /target and
>> cp -a /source/* /target
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>> then fix up any UUID's in the new /etc/fstab and /etc/grub/whtever
>> then reinstall grub using grub-install.
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>> There are probably better solutions.
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>> 2010/1/13 Reinhold Pam Muller <papabear- at xtra.co.nz>:
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>>> Hi ho folks
>>>
>>> I am running 8.04 lts as a file server (with 5 other PC's both Win and Linux
>>> having access to it)
>>> ?and it has a 80 gig hard drive that is now becoming too crowded and needs
>>> to be replaced with a bigger HD (something like 500 Gig)
>>>
>>> What is the best way to transfer all - yes ALL of the data incl Op system
>>> and various extra ? programs and settings such as grsync and kron ???
>>> Mount it internally and copy everything???
>>> Run it as a slave??
>>>
>>> Or do I bite the bullet and use a live CD again and then transfer *doc files
>>> from the ext back up HD??
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Reinhold
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> From: Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>
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> 2010/1/14 David Sutton <suttondavid at gmail.com>:
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>> A gparted live-disk would be a good way to format the destination
>> partition on your new disk. ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ )
>> Hard disk cloning can easily be done using g4u ( http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ )
>>
>>     
>
> Last time I looked at g4u is was extremely limited, basically all it
> did was dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 with no awareness of filesystem,
> no ability to resize partitions etc. partimage is a lot more useful
> (although it's been broken in ubuntu the last few times I tried to use
> it)
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