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Hello Everyone:

I am not sure if similar question has appeared before.

I have a small hard disk (810M) with half for linux and half for Windows95. I
would like to upgrade my harddisk to a more reasonable size but do not want to
have the new drive permanently installed as a slave or secondary drive. I want
to use the existing one for some other purposes.

Does any one know how or can guide me how I can copy the contents of entire
disk (both linux and Windows95) on the new disk. The new disk, being bigger in
size, will have larger partition sizes as well (or I can make same size and add
few more partitions).

will save me a lot of time which I spent in configuring the existing system.

I am runing linux slackware 3.0, kernel version 1.3.18 on a Dell 100MHz
pentium.

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Quote:>I have a small hard disk (810M) with half for linux and half for Windows95. I
>would like to upgrade my harddisk to a more reasonable size but do not want to
>have the new drive permanently installed as a slave or secondary drive. I want
>to use the existing one for some other purposes.

>Does any one know how or can guide me how I can copy the contents of entire
>disk (both linux and Windows95) on the new disk. The new disk, being bigger in
>size, will have larger partition sizes as well (or I can make same size and add
>few more partitions).

Lance

[...]
[On copying the contents of a partition to a new drive]

: >Partition Magic 3.0 contains a utility, PartitionCopy, which will do
: >this. PowerQuest, the publisher, has released an expanded version as
: >DriveCopy ($29.95).
: >Steve
: >Stephen B. Browne

:
: It will copy ext2 partitions, too?

No need. Mount the new Linux partition somewhere (say, /mnt), cd to the
root directory of the partition to copy (eg, /usr), and issue the command:

( tar clf - . ) | ( cd /mnt && tar xvf - )

This means:

c: create a tar file
l: stay on the local file system - don't go to a different fs
f - : write the file to stdout.

The second part of the command just cd's to where the stuff is to be dumped,
and extracts the archive.

Unix pipes are your friend. Love them.

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Lance

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