Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 02:57:34 UTC 2010
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:
Just to be precise, I am not trying to do an ISO image of a running root FS,
> but of a USB attached disk.
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I did not apply the following steps for FreeBSD , but I have applied them in
Mandriva Linux a few times :
Assume that the operating system is broken and it is not possible to repair
it ,
and the data files are not destroyed ( in Mandriva Linux , /home/ is in a
different partition ) .
I am removing power line of broken OS hard disk ( to prevent accidental
overwrite ) .
I am attaching a new hard disk .
I am installing the Mandriva Linux from scratch onto the new hard disk .
I am attaching the power line of previous hard disk .
I am mounting required partition(s) of the previous hard disk .
I am using copy from previous hard disk with recursive parameter on
required directories .
After making a complete copy and verifying that everything is copied
properly ,
I am re-using the previous hard disk for another task ( mostly it remains on
the same computer for a possible new recovery ) .
In that way , it is not necessary to use same size hard disks .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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