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Re: [LUG] Disk replacement

 

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:02:37AM +0000, tom wrote:
> I have a nice 80G 7200rpm drive from a knackered video recorder and  
> thought it would be nice to use it to replace my old 40G 5400 rpm drive  
> and use that elsewhere. Does anyone know of an easy cloning method - so  
> I dont have to modify all those horrible device ID's in menu.lst.
> Ideally I'd just like to insert the drive, go 'CLONE' and then take out  
> the old drive et vouloir (for those of you that like correcting my  
> french - veux doesn't quite make the pun work)
> Tom te tom te tom
>

You could have a look at CloneZilla, I believe it'll do a smaller drive to a bigger 
drive.  It's about 100MB for the ISO.

Otherwise I guess you could manually create partitions and copy the stuff over 
although I guess that'll be what you really want to avoid.

Rob

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