[olug] OLUG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 13
Chad Homan
choman at gmail.com
Tue Sep 12 21:47:29 UTC 2006
my two cents, Check out g4u and gparted, together they may provide what you
want
g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
gparted: httpgparted.sf.net
Although ubuntu has a gparted front end as well
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> 1. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Eric Lusk)
> 2. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Ryan Stille)
> 3. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Noel Leistad)
> 4. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Noel Leistad)
> 5. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Andrew Embury)
> 6. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Craig Wolf)
> 7. Re: The continuing saga of ...Re: To re-install or NOT
> reinstall? (Sean Kelly)
> 8. Re: The continuing saga of ...Re: To re-install or NOT
> reinstall? (Joe Gulizia)
> 9. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Trent Melcher)
> 10. Re: Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive (Phil Brutsche)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:10:06 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> Adding to my last statement, I have been able to copy
> a drive, then format the remaining space and rearrange
> it. It's been a while since I've had to do that one,
> but I made myself a much larger /home partition that
> way at one point...
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> From: Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:12:28 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> How about using dd to copy, then use parted to resize the partition on
> the new drive?
>
> -Ryan
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> From: Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:14:15 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> Possibly not helpful, but could you dd the drive, then if the dd works
> as bootable, use the gparted live cd to resize??
>
>
>
> Eric Lusk wrote:
>
> >Adding to my last statement, I have been able to copy
> >a drive, then format the remaining space and rearrange
> >it. It's been a while since I've had to do that one,
> >but I made myself a much larger /home partition that
> >way at one point...
> >
> >https://www.ericshaus.com
> >Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:14:54 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> looks like Ryan beat me..... :-)
>
> Ryan Stille wrote:
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> >How about using dd to copy, then use parted to resize the partition on
> >the new drive?
> >
> >-Ryan
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> From: Andrew Embury <drazak at ingenii.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:27:12 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> I always just:
>
> 1. Fdisked the new drive
> 2. Put down a filesystem
> 3. Mount the new filesystem
> 4. 'cp -a' from the old filesystem to the new
> 5. Run the bootloader on the new filesystem
>
> Always worked for me.
>
> Drew
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Eric P wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system (Ubuntu 6.06) is purring along and is the only OS I have on my
> hard drive (20GB). However, I have an empty
> > 80GB hard drive that I'd move everything over to.
> >
> > Is there a way to make a complete image of my 20GB and put it onto the
> 80GB and be up and running w/o the fuse of
> > reinstalling the OS? BTW, I have a 3rd drive that could act as
> temporary holding space (it has ~50GB of space) where I
> > could place the image from the 20GB hard drive.
> >
> > I figure the process would involve making an image and temporarily
> placing it on the drive w/~50 GB space, then
> > installing the 80GB HD and booting a live CD. Then I'd somehow copy the
> image onto the 80GB hard drive so that it has
> > the same boot configuration.
> >
> > Is this possible and relatively painfree?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:57:49 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> another alternative to ghost is g4u. Takes a WHILE to do it's thing but
> it IS OSS. 8)
> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
>
>
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
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> >>> drazak at ingenii.com 9/12/2006 >>>
> I always just:
>
> 1. Fdisked the new drive
> 2. Put down a filesystem
> 3. Mount the new filesystem
> 4. 'cp -a' from the old filesystem to the new
> 5. Run the bootloader on the new filesystem
>
> Always worked for me.
>
> Drew
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Eric P wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system (Ubuntu 6.06) is purring along and is the only OS I have on my
> hard drive (20GB). However, I have an empty
> > 80GB hard drive that I'd move everything over to.
> >
> > Is there a way to make a complete image of my 20GB and put it onto the
> 80GB and be up and running w/o the fuse of
> > reinstalling the OS? BTW, I have a 3rd drive that could act as
> temporary holding space (it has ~50GB of space) where I
> > could place the image from the 20GB hard drive.
> >
> > I figure the process would involve making an image and temporarily
> placing it on the drive w/~50 GB space, then
> > installing the 80GB HD and booting a live CD. Then I'd somehow copy the
> image onto the 80GB hard drive so that it has
> > the same boot configuration.
> >
> > Is this possible and relatively painfree?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:14:40 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] The continuing saga of ...Re: To re-install or NOT
> reinstall?
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:11:29PM -0700, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> ...
> > Which has precedence....fstab or mtab?
>
> Don't mess with /etc/mtab. That is a list maintained by the
> mount(8)/umount(8) commands of currently mounted filesystems. he file you
> want to be working with is /etc/fstab, which lists filesystems and where
> tehy should be mounted.
>
> FILES
> /etc/fstab file system table
> /etc/fstab.order for multipath device priority
> /etc/mtab table of mounted file systems
> /etc/mtab~ lock file
> /etc/mtab.tmp temporary file
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> --
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [olug] The continuing saga of ...Re: To re-install or NOT
> reinstall?
> Thanks greatly....before I really messed things up.
>
>
>
> --- Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:11:29PM -0700, Joe
> > Gulizia wrote:
> > ...
> > > Which has precedence....fstab or mtab?
> >
> > Don't mess with /etc/mtab. That is a list maintained
> > by the
> > mount(8)/umount(8) commands of currently mounted
> > filesystems. he file you
> > want to be working with is /etc/fstab, which lists
> > filesystems and where
> > tehy should be mounted.
> >
> > FILES
> > /etc/fstab file system table
> > /etc/fstab.order for multipath device
> > priority
> > /etc/mtab table of mounted file systems
> > /etc/mtab~ lock file
> > /etc/mtab.tmp temporary file
> >
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> From: "Trent Melcher" <tmelcher at saionline.com>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:12:09 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> That should work, "dd" does a block for block copy, so the only issue is
> that it writes your hard drives label to the new drive, so its going to
> look as if it's a 20GB drive. Gparted or even qtparted should be able
> to resize this for you, without destroying data.
>
> Trent
>
> Trent Melcher
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Noel Leistad
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:14 AM
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> >
> > Possibly not helpful, but could you dd the drive, then if the
> > dd works as bootable, use the gparted live cd to resize??
> >
> >
> >
> > Eric Lusk wrote:
> >
> > >Adding to my last statement, I have been able to copy
> > >a drive, then format the remaining space and rearrange
> > >it. It's been a while since I've had to do that one,
> > >but I made myself a much larger /home partition that
> > >way at one point...
> > >
> > >https://www.ericshaus.com
> > >Alcohol and Calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
> > >
> > >__________________________________________________
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:17:06 -0500
> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
> Trent Melcher wrote:
> > Gparted or even qtparted should be able to resize this for you,
> > without destroying data.
>
> One word: LVM. With the system setup right you shouldn't need to use
> parted. And, since the OP is using Ubuntu which uses LVMs during it's
> automated install...
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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