Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Diamond [mailto:eric at ediamond.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:31 AM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: RE: Duplicating a Fedora PC
> 
> 
> Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:24 PM Ow Mun Heng Ow Mun Heng asked:
> 
> > > On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would
> > > be using dd.
> > 
> > What if the source hard-drive is smaller than the newer one? 
> > Can it still image everything and leave the free space as free??
> > 
> > eg : 30Gb->80Gb?
> 
> Then, Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:37 PM D at 7@k|N& replied:
> 
> > Just a guess here, but I would think that it might mess up 
> > the partitioning on the larger drive.  I.e., you would have a 
> > 30GB space that matched the drive you copied, with an 
> > additional unpartitioned 50GB left over.
> 
> Exactly so. dd makes a block for block, (or in the case of a disk,
> sector for sector) copy of the input file. Hence the need for 
> something
> like ghost. 

So.. It would be feasible right? 

next question, how do I do it If the drive in question is a laptop
drive and I don't have any other method of installing that drive?
(the laptop only has space for 1 HD per time. :) I don't have
a usb2.0 external case nor the modular bay slot for another HD.

Would mounting it on another PC (using a 2.5" to 3.5") be feasible?
Mount under Windows or Linux??
> 
> Which BTW, originally started out as a sector copy tool but 
> evolved into
> a utility that understands the filesystems it's copying and 
> now actually
> makes a map of the disk and then compresses the data in a propriatory
> format. However, that ability allows it to move data between 
> partitions
> of different sizes. It can even shrink them (as long as the 
> destination
> is large enough to hold the data.)
> 
> Eric Diamond
> eDiamond Networking & Security
> 303-246-9555
> eric at ediamond.net
>  
> 
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