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

[Matt Thrailkill]

Does he mean to boot from it, or just have the files available?

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 18:30 -0700, cerise at armory.com wrote:
> 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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