Jason Van Cleve wrote: > > Here's my current partition table, in case anyone's interested: > > Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility > /dev/hdc2 6 1025 8193150 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdc3 2306 3648 10787647+ 5 Extended > /dev/hdc4 * 1089 2305 9775552+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdc5 2306 2367 497983+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdc6 2368 3648 10289601 b W95 FAT32 > > (For some reason the hard drive is hdc and the CDROM is hda in these > Dells.) > > --Jason V. C.
Tar and cpio will not copy Windoze. And I doubt it would work on that Dell Utility partition. For that you *must* use dd. First use fdisk to make the partitions /dev/hdb1 and hdb2 to be the same size as your existing ones. Then you can clone only those partitions: dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/hdb1 dd if=/dev/hdc2 of=/dev/hdb2 But I see that hdc6 is also Windoze. Therefore you need to make all of the partitions first and copy all the Windoze partitions using dd. You are free to make the Linux partitions bigger and copy them across using tar or cpio. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. --- General George Patton _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
