[olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive

[Eric P]

Thanks for all the ideas, everyone.  I'll give it a shot this weekend and post back.

Eric

Craig Wolf wrote:
> 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
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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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