cloning ubuntu on different hardware systems (x86)

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:58 -0600, Patrick Siglin wrote:
> the problem I had was cloning a 6 gig drive to a 160gig drive. It still only 
> showed the 160 as being a 6gig. I used qtparted and was unable to expand the 
> rest out. Is there a trick to this?

If you've got a live CD and gparted to grow the partition to the end of
the disk, then you should be able to tell ext3 to grow to the size of
the partition.

I've done this with my server box using reiserfs...

> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:24:48 +0100, hagen van rissenbeck wrote
> > Hi list, hi Michael,
> > 
> > Michael R. Head wrote:
> > 
> > /snip
> > 
> > >>That's why I would like to clone from a master pc in the future...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>My problem:
> > >>-----------
> > >>
> > >>I guess that cloning 1:1 won't work because of different hardware 
> > >>components.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mostly it should work, though you may have to reconfigure X if they have
> > > a differnt video card and possibly tweak the network settings.
> > 
> > That's enough? Seems to be easier than I thought ;-)
> > 
> > /snip
> > 
> > >>3. Cloning the partitions with partimage, g4u or something else (what 
> > >>tool would be your choice?)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 -c > /path/to/image/file
> > 
> > yepp, good idea, standard tool ;-)
> > 
> > > Or, using nbd on the remote machine:
> > > dd if=/dev/nbd of=/dev/hda
> > > 
> > > I wrote about doing it here:
> > > http://community.livejournal.com/ubuntu_users/22528.html
> > > 
> > > :-)
> > 
> > Thanks a lot. I'll try it out.
> > 
> > Yesterday, I researched also mondo-rescue,rsync and rembo. That's, 
> > what others use in (perhaps) similar cases...
> > 
> > Results will be reported.
> > 
> > Hagen
> > 
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