Migrating to a new hard disk

ianafh · Post by **ianafh** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:51 am

Hi

My ZM linux box hard disk is on the way out and needs to be replaced. It still functions as a hard disk, we just can't get any sleep.

Is there an easy way to copy the ZM installation - system and all to a new (larger) disk? If possible I want to avoid having to re-install everything from scratch.

I think that if I had an identical disk I could probably use dd to copy all of the data, not sure that will work if my new disk is larger.

I am running the CTU FC3 based distro.

Thanks in advance
Ian.

voronwe · Post by **voronwe** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:56 am

Hi Ianagh

I have googled abit and found this link that might be of help to you, but i have no experince with this software, but it sounds like it could do the job for you.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

ianafh · Post by **ianafh** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:10 am

Thanks voronwe.

I didn't even think to google (too tired from being woken by the old disk at 0:300 this morning)

I have downloaded the .iso and will give it a try this evening.

Ian.

voronwe · Post by **voronwe** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:32 pm

Hi Ian

Just happy to have helped, hope it works for you.