[ubuntu-nz] changing your hard drive with g4u

[David Sutton]

A gparted live-disk would be a good way to format the destination 
partition on your new disk. ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ )
Hard disk cloning can easily be done using g4u ( http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ )

Just take extreme care that you clone the old partition to the new one! 
I also strongly advise, that you back up irreplaceable files to 
somewhere else first. (... but you do that already, don't you?)

Using g4u you can transfer all the information on your old hard disk 
exactly.

cheers
dvd


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> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:30:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Reinhold Pam Muller <papabear- at xtra.co.nz>
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> Hi ho folks
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> I am running 8.04 lts as a file server (with 5 other PC's both Win and Linux having access to it) 
>  and it has a 80 gig hard drive that is now becoming too crowded and needs to be replaced with a bigger HD (something like 500 Gig)
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> What is the best way to transfer all - yes ALL of the data incl Op system  and various extra   programs and settings such as grsync and kron ???
> Mount it internally and copy everything???
> Run it as a slave??
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> Or do I bite the bullet and use a live CD again and then transfer *doc files from the ext back up HD??
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> Cheers
> Reinhold
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> From: Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-nz] changing a hard drive
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> what I normally do is install the new drive as 'master' and the
> existing drive as a slave, boot from a live CD, make new filesystem(s)
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> then mount the source as /source and the new filesystem as /target and
> cp -a /source/* /target
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> then fix up any UUID's in the new /etc/fstab and /etc/grub/whtever
> then reinstall grub using grub-install.
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> There are probably better solutions.
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> 2010/1/13 Reinhold Pam Muller <papabear- at xtra.co.nz>:
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>> Hi ho folks
>>
>> I am running 8.04 lts as a file server (with 5 other PC's both Win and Linux
>> having access to it)
>> ?and it has a 80 gig hard drive that is now becoming too crowded and needs
>> to be replaced with a bigger HD (something like 500 Gig)
>>
>> What is the best way to transfer all - yes ALL of the data incl Op system
>> and various extra ? programs and settings such as grsync and kron ???
>> Mount it internally and copy everything???
>> Run it as a slave??
>>
>> Or do I bite the bullet and use a live CD again and then transfer *doc files
>> from the ext back up HD??
>>
>> Cheers
>> Reinhold
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