On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dan Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> Dan Thurman wrote: >> > >> > Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the >> > dd command. It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to >> > faithfully >> > create the / partition. >> > >> > So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the >> > partition of >> > /. How can I do this safely? cp -a? >> > >> > What I do not want to do is to copy over from /, the devices for example >> > so what is the best method for copying over the partitions esp. that of >> > / ? >> > >> > I think /boot is not a problem with cp -a but I have a feeling / is >> > significant. >> > >> > Please advise? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Dan >> > >> I have found that using tools like gparted to copy partitions tends >> to work better. There is a live CD and a live USB image that lets >> you clone the partitions while they are not mounted. >> >> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ >> > Hmm... interesting. I will try it! > > Thanks for the suggestion! > Dan They now seem to have something even more interesting. GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD - GParted and Clonezilla Unification http://news.softpedia.com/news/GParted-Clonezilla-LiveCD-51328.shtml ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
