My friend that has done this successfully has done it between 2 drives of the same size, as well as the new drive bigger then the original drive. Steve Dawes PH: (403) 268-5527. Mailto: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca -----Original Message----- From: Adam Myrow [mailto:myrow@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2001 December 05 7:16 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: transferring linux system to another hard drive I tried that once, and dd bombed saying that the maximum file size of 2GB had been reached. Of course, I was copying to a file first, because I didn't trust writing directly to another partition like that. Does that get around the 2GB limit? Also, doesn't writing the image of a disk on another make the second drive think it's the same size as the first? I've copied manually, an entire Linux filesystem several times as I experimented, and it can be done with a bit of effort. Also, parted runs under Linux and can copy DOS or Windows partitions across from one drive to another and set the size on the new drive correctly. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
