Perhaps reading my first reponse...

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cesman

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You can do this with any one of:

- dd

- tar

- rsync

and several other ways... Most of these were discussed further up the thread. In the end there's no substitute for RTM.

if the sizes of the two drives are the same, this is trivial...

1) config the 2nd (new, blank) drive to be a slave IDE device, or use cable select appropriately.
2) install drive in your current mythtv machine, or hang it off a cable.
3) boot off of original drive.
4) $ su
5) use dd to copy all the bits from drive1 (/dev/hda) to drive2 (/dev/hdb). specify a large block size to speed things up. check the dd man page first, but it's something along the lines of:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8192k
6) # shutdown -h now
7) remove original drive; reconfig new drive to be primary IDE device.
boot with new drive.

jim

no. for various reasons, in the end i abandonded the cloning idea. in several attempts i got unbootable disks. in several other attempts i had all kinds of weirdess during booting, mostly very protracted fsck's and then complaints about superblock discrepancies. i'm sure that the duplication can be done but my debugging time would have swamped how long it actually took to install from scratch and subsequently copy over my configs. which is what i finally did.

but thanks for all of the suggestions.

jim

That's the bit I forgot to mention, the new drive is much bigger than the original (160GB vs 40GB), so the partition sizes will be different.

Thanks anyway

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For your disk image there are several bits of relevant information:

- Low level

- the formatting
- file system (ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs, ...)
- the boot record
- High level

- The directory tree and files

Given a formatted destination drive with an empty file system, all you need to copy is that last bit, the high level data. The only other thing you need to do is run lilo to set up the boot record. Both the tar and rsync method will let you copy between drives of different sizes and even different filesystem types. This is NOT speculation. I've done this many times before, generally one partition at a time.

Does anyone know if there's a howto regarding this topic for various scenarios?

I'd like to know if mondo can be installed and used with knoppmyth.

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Perhaps a search of the forum. Seriously, someone asked about moving to another hard drive. Myself and other posted on how this could be done. Yes, you can use mondo w/ KnoppMyth. Not that I have, but KnoppMyth is Linux.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!