imaging a drive to replace it

[bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Bogstad)]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Just to keep it simple (I don't need the extra space even if I buy a larger
> hard drive) will partimage do the copy operation easily?

It's been a while, but it shouldn't be too hard IF you are comfortable
with semi-command line
type programs.  You might just want to check out the docs on the web
sites I mentioned  and see if it seems reasonable to you.  I would
suggest using the System Rescue CD I mentioned which bundles partimage
and other system recover/backup programs into a live Linux CD.

Bill Bogstad

>
> Tim
>
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are there products to replace a drive in a Linux box by imaging it to a
>>> new
>>> hard drive? ?I've used Acronis True Image plenty of times on my windows
>>> machines but never had the need (until now) to do it for linux.
>>
>> I think something like partimage http://www.partimage.org would work
>> well for this.
>>
>> System Rescue distributions (such as http://www.sysresccd.org) include
>> partimage.
>> Partimage doesn't do resizing directly, but you can use other tools to
>> resize the partition after the transfer...
>>
>> Bill Bogstad
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tim
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