On 4/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Carrera</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com">daniel.carrera@zmsl.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="mailto:rpowersau@gmail.com">rpowersau@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>> I dd the MBR onto the new drive first (with the bootloader).<br>> Then use fdisk to create the partition (only modifies the partition<br>> tables).
<br>> Then mkfs.ext2 the new partition.<br>> Tar up the partition I want to copy.<br>> Untar it onto the new partition.<br>> Boot.<br><br>Thanks, I'll try that. Kind of makes you wonder why you need partimage<br>
when tar will do the job.</blockquote><div><br>
Personal preference? :)<br>
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But I just used the above today to make 2 duplicate drives at work. My
problem was that the destination drives were half the size of the
source.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cheers,<br>Daniel.<br>--<br> /\/`) <a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.org">
http://opendocumentfellowship.org</a><br> /\/_/<br> /\/_/ A life? Sounds great!<br> \/_/ Do you know where I could download one?<br> /<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">
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<br>Russ