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

[cerise at armory.com]

I was operating under the impression that he just wanted to copy the data.
I included the bit about booting just in case he wanted to.

-Phil/CERisE

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
> 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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