[ale] Disk Drive Legerdemain

[Keith R. Watson]

Jeff,

I found another application buried in my collected utilities that might help.

Partition Resizer

http://www.zeleps.com/

keith



At 03:36 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>I want to get really good at replicating disk drives.
>
>My objective is to be able to take a given disk drive (not part of a RAID 
>set or anything like that), hook up a second drive of arbitrary capacity 
>(as long as there is enough room for all partition contents), and turn the 
>second drive into a working duplicate of the first drive.
>
>I will want to retain any bootloader in the transition, to include LILO, 
>NT/2K's loader, what have you.  The partition table may be different, if 
>only out of necessity due to the drives being different sizes and geometries.
>
>Keeping in mind that I want to be able to go from basically any drive to 
>any other drive, how should I proceed?  I am sure that dd would figure 
>into this, especially with respect to the bootloader issue.  However, what 
>I'm unclear on is how to copy partition contents when the partitions are 
>unequal on unequal drives.  I know you can really mess up a drive this way.
>
>It occurs to me that if I start with a drive with NTFS partitions, I can't 
>just mount source and target partitions and either rsync or cp between 
>them.  How could I use dd in such a case?
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Jeff

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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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