So what you say is use gparted to copy the file system.<br><br>Right after that, what I need to is use the grub-install stuff. Not sure how to do this.<br><br>Any pointers appreciated.<br><br>-Narahari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Tomaschik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com">david@systemoverlord.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Michael Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> No, gparted moves filesystems. It may or may not move the partitions boot<br>
> sector, but the MBR is a definite no-no. The MBR can, however, be manually<br>
> copied, so long as only the code segment and not the partition table itself<br>
> is copied. See the wikipedia article for MBR for the layout of the MBR. If<br>
> memory serves, code is the first 440 bytes of the MBR but I am not 100%<br>
> certain of that.<br>
><br>
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</div>The safer option, however, is just to use grub-install (or similar)<br>
and let tools that are designed to mess with your MBR do the heavy<br>
lifting.<br>
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