Backing up with dd, and creating a file system on a new drive.

[Steve]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:41:19 -0000, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> Helo again,
> Sorry I haven't gotten back to this thred until now, but I have been
> pretty busy around here.
> You were the person who got closest to what I wanted, but you are still
> off the mark due to my not explaining myself well enough.
> I do not want to make an .img file, I want to make a duplicate of my
> dual boot 160 GB main drive, on the 500 GB so that I can swap places
> with the drives, and run from the big one instead, in case the little
> one goes dead.
> I know dd can do this, as I have read a tutorial explaining how to do it
> in the past, but I cannot find the same tutorial again.
> Could you please help me out with this?
> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>
What I’ve done in the past is use gParted, from a live disc, to copy/paste  
the partitions from one disk to another.  If you copy each partition one  
at a time and then contract/expand it to the size you want before copying  
the next.  You then need to use SuperGrub or edit Grub to sort out the  
boot process and UUIDs.

-- 
Steve