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

[Ray Parrish]

Fred Roller wrote:
> Ray Parrish 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
>>
>>   
>>     
> No Problem, Same instructions as before except omit:
>
> 3. mount the 500Gb hdd
>
> 	mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>
> ensure neither drive is mounted in step 4
>
> and your dd command now looks like this:
>
>     dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 conv=noerror
>
> assuming the your 500Gb drive is /dev/sdb
>
>  From here it's choose your own adventure:
> a.) If you just want to create an additional partion(s) for general use 
> between the dual boot systems:
>
>     fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> then once the program is up:
>
>     n
>
> "n" for new partition and accept the defaults for a single partition.  
> Understand what you are doing in this program or you could sh--can the 
> drive and have to start over.
>
> Once the partition is created type:
>
>     w
>
> to (w)rite to disk and exit the program.  Once the partition is 
> completed and you are on the command line again then format the 
> partition (assuming it is /dev/sdb3 and it needs to be formatted for 
> both windows and linux) with:
>
>     mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb3
>
> reboot in to your linux boot and open a terminal.
>
>     sudo mkdir /Data
>
> mount the new partition:
>
>     sudo mount /dev/sdb3 /Data
>
> the system should auto detect the type of file system.  Edit your 
> "fstab" as necessary for a permanent mount point.
>
> or by GUI
>
> b.)  Once you are done and while you are still in the terminal
>
>     sudo apt-get install gparted
>
> because the live CD does not ship with the partitioner.  Resize your 
> disk or add a new partition.  Reboot and create the directory and set up 
> fstab.  Hope this helps.
>   
Thanks for the directions. I've been busy the past couple of days so I 
couldn't get back to you until now. What you told me here seems like 
what i want to do, and i thank you again for telling me the procedure.

Have a good holiday season everyone!

Later, Ray Parrish

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