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From: Adam Myrow <myrow@eskimo.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: transferring linux system to another hard drive
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 20:15:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011205200835.009ecd10@pop3.norton.antivirus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001301c17df2$b6bd4720$11180d0a@telusplanet.net>

I tried that once, and dd bombed saying that the maximum file size of 2GB 
had been reached.  Of course, I was copying to a file first, because I 
didn't trust writing directly to another partition like that.  Does that 
get around the 2GB limit?  Also, doesn't writing the image of a disk on 
another make the second drive think it's the same size as the first?

I've copied manually, an entire Linux filesystem several times as I 
experimented, and it can be done with a bit of effort.  Also, parted runs 
under Linux and can copy DOS or Windows partitions across from one drive to 
another and set the size on the new drive correctly.




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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 transfering " Cheryl Homiak
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Geoff Shang
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Cheryl Homiak
     ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Thomas Ward
   ` Janina Sajka
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Thomas Ward
   ` transferring " Steve Dawes
     ` Adam Myrow [this message]
       ` Angelo Sonnesso
         ` Angelo Sonnesso
     ` Victor Tsaran
       ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Steve Holmes
 ` transfering " Geoff Shang
   ` Gregory Nowak
 transferring " Dawes, Stephen
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Victor Tsaran
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Jason
 Dawes, Stephen

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