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Re: Moving a linux to a different hard disk
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Ofer Maor wrote:
> I have a much better suggestion :-)
> I just finished moving my partitions about half an hour ago.
> There is a software called Partition Magic, (I am sure you heard of it :-).
> Partition Magic 4.0, knows not only how to resize partitions, it also knows
> how to move/copy them, even between different Hard Drives. And it supports
> FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux ext2 and Linux Swap.
a review presented in one of the latest linux journal volumes (or was it
sys admin?) had a different opinion. the reviewer tried the program on
various setups, and in many of the cases it stoped the copy in the middle
or just randomally failed. now you'd say "but it worked for me", which is
true, but the fact that such a review rather easily got into copying
problems makes me suspicious.. i'd wait for the next version r two (e.g.
4.2?), since this is their first version of supporting ext2, and since we
know partition magic worked great on dos/windows partitions, their linux
support would hopefully catch up..
until then, i'd suggest to stick to the old methods discussed on this
mailing list every 3 month: 'cp -a', 'tar ...', or 'dump ... | restore...'
you could look in the archive for more details, or you can read the manual
page of restore - it gives you the exact command line needed to make such
a partition copying.
guy