ghost

[Patrick Siglin]

Sounds like a complicated process.

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From: Jason Straight <jason at jeetkunedomaster.net>
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:34:13 -0500
Subject: Re: ghost

> On Thursday 02 March 2006 20:16, Patrick Siglin wrote:
> > Does anyone know if ghost would work to image drive to drive? I currently
> > have an 8 gig drive in my ubuntu box and decided I liked it so much I
> > wanted to put it on a bigger drive.
> >
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> > poison at list.memphistw.org
> 
> Not on different size drives. BTW, dd is linux command line version 
> of ghost, but an image copy is not what you want.
> 
> I've used rsync in the past for moving installs to other drives, 
> after partitioning and formatting them right. But you have to:
> 1. --exclude any mountpoints to other filesystems on your source drive
> 2. mkdir those dirs you excluded on your dest
> 3. setup your bootloader for new drive so it get's installed on 
> /dev/hdc or whatever.
> 
> Anyone else have a better method?
> 
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