Brian Erikson wrote:
>
> Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> >
> > I have mandrake 6.0 on a server with a 2.1g drive and a 6.3g drive the
> > other ide cable has a cdrom and cd-rw on it. I need more disk space
> > badly so I want to upgrade the first hard drive .
> >
> > What is the most painless way to do this?
>
> You might want to check a utility from PowerQuest called Drive Image.
> It can
> duplicate a drive sector by sector. I have used it for DOS/Win stuff
> but
> think it will work for Linux too. You run it from a floppy and create a
> compressed image on the second drive. Pull out the first drive, install
> the
> larger one and restore the image to the new drive.
> Another program from them called Drive Copy does a similar thing but you
> have both the old and the new drive installed and copy from the old to
> the
> new one.
I'am sure there is an open source solution. Anybody could got a simple way
to proceed ?
(like cat /dev/hda1 >> /dev/hdb1)
Jacques.
