Hi, I was to migrate a system from one machine to another. The first one had a 10 GB disk, the second a 40 GB one. I didn't want to copy over the stuff, so I tried a trick:
Destination machine: I booted via rescue mode without disk recognition, with networking. Then I ran: nc -l -p 5000 | dd of=/dev/hda bs=8192 Source machine: I put in single user mode with networking. Then ran: dd if=/dev/hda bs=8192 | nc dest.machine.ip.address 5000 Once this was over, I rebooted destination machine, halted source machine. Kudzu did all the hardware reconfiguration for me (NIC, USB etc.). I had a perfect disk-mirror of the source machine on the destination. All the add-on software, all customisations, my files, emails, even ssh host keys... Well, not quite :( Now, I cannot see the extra 30 GB space anywhere. When I try to delete my last partition and recreate it, I can see: Command (m for help): n First cylinder (1158-1292, default 1158): Using default value 1158 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1158-1292, default 1292): But fdisk on startup says: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 5168. So, how do I use the cylinders between 1293 and 5168?? What HDD utility will recover my 30GB? Binand -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uptime 11:55am up 58 days, 4:49, 2 users, load average: 1023.78, 419.92, 158.90 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
