clone a drive

[Maxime Alarie]

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ash Wyllie
Sent: 05 October 2010 02:00
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: clone a drive

Now that I have my laptop back, now I want to put a new larger drive in
it.

Ideally, I would like to:  copy /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb3
                           remove the 120GB drive
                           install a 250GB (or larger)
                           user the USB stick to formatand
                                        partition the new drive
                           copy /dev/sdb3 to /dev/sda1

Can that be done?

If not, how can I get my current set up to a new drive?






Maybe there is a better option, but  I would use rsync. This will
synchronize your 2 disks.  If there is an error, restarting  rsync will
resume the sync.

rsync -alvn for a dry run  (option n is for a dry run)

Remove the -n flag to sync when the dry run completed.