[SlugLUG] Removing an old drive and replicating it's data

[cerise at armory.com]

Put them both in the same system, boot from a live CD, create the necessary
partitions, and dd them over.  Assume you create partition hda6 to hold the
data of hdb1, you'd run:

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda6

Take care to make the partitions the same size.  In order to boot into that
system, you'd need only change the bootloader and alter /etc/fstab.

-Phil/CERisE

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:10:54PM -0700, Eric Carter wrote:
> Ubuntu (my current OS) is installed on hda (an 180 gig drive)
> 
> I have an old debian install that I'd like to keep around for backup
> purposes on hdb (a 19 gig drive). It's currently mapped to
> /home/ecna/oldhome.
> 
> I'd like to (in as little effort as possible) copy all the data over
> to hda and be able to find it in the future at /home/ecna/oldhome and
> pull hdb out of my machine. Any tips on how to do this painlessly?
> 
> I'm not sure what the process would be called, otherwise I'd just google it.
> 
> Thanks,
> EC
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