Ubuntu :: How To Copy One Hdd Onto Another
Dec 7, 2010
My comp has two hard drives: 1: 300gb, 10,000rpm 2: 500gb, 7200 rpm. (Both drives are SATA).First drive is loaded with 10.04 and has many programs installed, tweaks and settings made etc. Second drive has 10.10, but no changes or progs installed.I want to wipe clean the second drive and copy the entire contents of first drive onto it This will save me the trouble of doing a clean install of 10.04 on the second drive and then having to install programs , change settings etc. Is there a program available that will let me do this, so that I won't have to make any changes to second drive after the first drive has been copied to, ie I won't even have to install grub? Note that I am a novice with linux and not very good with computers generally, so the program should have an easy to use gui
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Jul 9, 2010
just installed ubuntu couple of days back on my netbook. I am still a beginner, enjoying my adventure exploring ubuntu. I have another desktop which runs on XP. I am able to access XP shared folders through my netbook(linux). However, i wanted to copy files from XP infact folders using TERMINAL in my netbook, not copy and paste using my mouse. Are there any commands for it?
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Mar 1, 2011
How to copy a Read-Only file in Linux and make the copy writable with a single cp command in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? The --no-preserve and --preserve seemed to be good candidates, except that they should "and" the mode flags, while what I am looking for is something that will "or" them (add +w mode).
More details: I have to import a repository from GIT to Perforce. I want that all Perforce depot files are Read-Only (that is how Perforce was designed), while all other files that were derived/copied from depot files are writable. Currently if a Makefile tries to copy a Read-Only file then the derived file will also be Read-only. This leads to build-errors when cp tries to overwrite Read-Only file second time. Of course the --force is a workaround here but then the derived file is also Read-Only. Also I do not want to mess with "chmod" after each "cp" command - I will do that only as the last resort.
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Sep 1, 2010
I have a 160GB harddrive which I installed a F12, would like to upgrade to a bigger drive, but I hate to have to re-install everything.
Recommend a good disk copy utility? The utility should be able to not only copy files, but boot sector and everything. So I just need to make a copy, change my BIOS to boot from the new drive and run everything as before.
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Jul 5, 2010
I am using windows xp and debian linux.In windows xp I am having around 25 gb offree memory but in linux if i copy anything it says enough space memory to copy
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Feb 6, 2011
how do you copy an entire line and add that copy at the end of the same line?
For example, sometimes I rename a collection of files with a command like:
"mv oldfilename newfilename;"
I am able to add "mv" at the beginning, the semicolon at the end and sometimes replace a word in the middle, but... how to change a line "oldfilename" into "oldfilename oldfilename"... that is already long time a mystery to me...
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Jan 30, 2010
I just got utorrent working and i need to place the file from my desktop to /usr/local/bin/ but when i do it says permission denied. So i tried sudo cp /home/username/Desktop/uTorrent /usr/local/bin/ but when i do that the terminal just shows > and just sits their and no commands work after that. Can someone tell me a alternative way or tell me why the terminal is doing this?
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May 4, 2010
I've been backing up some of my older DVDs to my hard drive, as they were starting to get a bit scratched. Using 9.10, I had no problems. After updating to 10.04 yesterday, however, every method I try to use fails after copying about 80 to 120 MB.I'm running the amd64 version of 10.04, my optical drive is a TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H, and I have installed libdvdcss2 from the Medibuntu repository. I can play the DVDs just fine, but I can't copy them.
Brasero craps out with "Error while burning. Data could not be written (Input/output error)", which based on some things I've read also pops up if data can't be read. I've tried the "Save Log" button, but the log is always empty. dd exits with "dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error".dd_rescue starts showing nothing but bad blocks roughly at the same point where dd throws the I/O error, and if I run it in reverse, it starts showing bad blocks immediately.k3b seems to work... but it took nearly half an hour (which is a bit longer than it should have taken), it threw a "Problem while reading. Retrying from sector n" error three times, and VLC won't play the resulting ISO, either directly or mounted.
I would say that it seems like a problem with copy protection, except that I have libdvdcss2 installed and I can play the DVDs just fine. I just can't copy them to an ISO. And it's not a matter of the discs being too scratched or a problem with the drive, since as I said I can play them just fine, and I can copy them in Windows using MagicISO.Some of the DVDs I'm trying to copy aren't available anymore, but I'd hate to have to boot into Windows just to copy some discs since I do pretty much everything else in Linux.
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May 5, 2010
I am upgrading a QNAP NAS - the unit only had 1 drive to begin with. I have taken this original drive out and hooked it to my ubuntu system and when I boot my machine ubuntu sees the volume that was the volume the qnap shared. and it sees MOST of the files. but when I go to copy stuff it gives errors stating things like 'can't copy data2.cab' - when I go the directory where it claims it can't copy data2.cab there is no data2.cab.
Thing is I am pretty sure there *IS* a data2.cab ... just that the rights or something are such that I cannot see / copy it. is there a simple command I can run on the *entire* drive that will set the ownership of ALL files so that I can see and move them? I just need to copy all these files over to the upgraded nas and then I can reformat this drive.
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May 9, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04. I have successfully installed Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL. I cannot copy files or directories into /var/www.
how I can enable copying of files and directories into /var/www?
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May 19, 2010
is not the right place for this question. When requesting a Ubuntu distro be sent to me I can not see any way of selecting a 64 bit version, is it possible to alter the request so that it is a 64 bit version vs the standard 32 bit version. I would download it but my Satellite connection is not all that great and I have a fairly small monthly cap.
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May 20, 2010
i have a macbook that wont boot. i want to copy the picture and music from the hd. i took the hd out and put it into my dell inspiron. i booted up with a live cd and im able to view the files. i can play the music. i just cant copy anything to my external hd. its telling me i dont have premissions. i tried to change that in the properties but it wont let me.
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Jun 28, 2010
Anyone know why, my copy & paste in the terminal doesn't work....it's there, just not highlighted, I need to install Sun Java and can copy the command lines from the forum I just can't paste them into the terminal. Also is there a way to check that my Ubuntu download to my USB stick is error free?
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Aug 28, 2010
I am a photographer and upload a lot of photos online. Both to Facebook and flickr. But these sites although great for sharing photos with the world are not ideal backup solutions. I love Ubuntu One and try to utilize it as much as possible but frankly I am more than a little lazy. So I more often than not don't back up to U1. The same can also be said about my document uploads to Zoho and class projects. The idea here is whenever a user uploads a file Ubuntu should automatically copy it to the Ubuntu One folder. This would likely be implemented through a browser extension.
Although the idea and basic implementation are simple there are issues that must be considered. These include size, bandwidth and privacy issues. As such the user may not want to copy every single thing they upload to Ubuntu One. But having a popup come up every time something is uploaded is intrusive and annoying.
These issues could be combated through:
-A strong settings framework
-Zeitgeist integration
-In browser dialogues (see the new "save your password/settings?" dialogues in Chrome/Firefox)
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Sep 18, 2010
the problem is that when i try to copy two files with the name(say ajax.js and Ajax.js) to a pen drive/USB it shows the options for either Replace/Skip. with the above two options either one of the ajax.js files will be copied, but i need these two files. I have also used different USB's, but no difference...
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Oct 1, 2010
When i do cp filename destinationfolder it isn't happening. I don't get any error messages or any indication that the file copy didn't happen. But when I go to the destination folder and do ls; the file(s) not there. I tried it with sudo also and i get the same results. When I first did the copy it actually copied it somwhere but not where i wanted it. It copied it to folder name Desktop. So i tried copying it from Desktop and again same results.
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Oct 5, 2010
copy my existing hdd to a new one that has lvm and for whatever reason(inexperience) I cant figure out a good way to do it. This is what Im working with old drive =160GB, new drive 500GB.
new drive fdisk
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
[code].....
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Nov 18, 2010
I have a folder that contains multiple files i want to copy.
file1_DK, file2_DK, file3_DK, file4_NO
If i wanted to copy files1-3_DK but exclude file4_NO how would i do that?
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Dec 20, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm upgrading to a new hard drive i have an 80GB and I'm going to a 250GB and I need to how can I transfer everything of the 80GB to the 250GB
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Mar 20, 2011
I've previously been able to copy CDs using Brasero. Now when I try, the program will copy the disk, but instead of pausing to allow you to insert the destination disk, it will simply eject the disk and then quit. I can copy disks by selecting 'copy to image' and then burning the image, but this is a pain.
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May 31, 2011
I made a backup copy of my system before encountering a problem. Now I want to install Ubuntu 11.04 and use the system backup, but I can't copy it to disc because it is just over 10 Gb.
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Jun 4, 2011
I can find no way to copy a cd to ISO in 11.04, either GUI or CLI. Brasero does not have .iso option though the brasero-cdrkit is installed and is latest version. Evidently the /dev/cdrom is no longer used? I'm not sure what's going on there but anytime I try to use dd or cat I get and Input/Output error.
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Jul 1, 2011
I have a several DVDs with films on them. I have a laptop and want to boot up a Linux Live CD on it, then eject the CD, insert a DVD and watch those films.
Is there any Live CD, which I can use for it? I mean that it would copy itself to RAM, so that I can remove it, insert a DVD and watch the film. All the files on DVDs are *.avi .
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Aug 19, 2011
Is there anyway to copy a drive that has a working Ubuntu OS such as on sda1 and put it on sda 7 or 8 of the same hard drive
What I want to copy is my first of 4 primary partitions sda1 and put it on a logical drive on my extended drive and be able to boot from them
My hard drive has 2 15 gig primary partitions set up for ubuntu and kubuntu on sda1 and sda2. sda3 is a 2gig swap, while the last partition sda4 is extended it has several 15 gig logical partitions for more ubuntus
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Aug 24, 2010
I'm trying to copy files to the /var/www folder on Ubuntu 10.04. But I think I don't hava the permission. How can I do this? Maybe I have to set the rights permissions.
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Jan 6, 2010
I did it in 8.04, my question is when I left (opposite) click the desktop CD/DVD icon and select Copy from the pop-up menu where does the extracted image end up.Its always worked well enough I never worried about it, but today I needed some copies of a DVD a coworker authored that had one of those lame "Stomper" labels stuck on. It was applied off center and made the disk so unbalanced it appeared to read at 1X or less I was expecting an option to save the image but didn't get one. Anyone know if its still on my hard drive somewhere so I can avoid the tedium of ripping it again?
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Jan 11, 2010
I can't Copy, paste, select all, or find with my keyboard... pretty much all the commands that involve the Control key don't work. in firefox... the edit> copy, paste , etc commands are actually grayed out too.
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Jan 30, 2010
When I use ldd it prints the location of the depends.Is there a way to copy the depends listed to a location in a single command or streamline it? I don't want to copy each dependence once at a time.
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Feb 24, 2010
Why can I not drag and drop files to the new volume in dolphin? I tried doing it as root and it basically told me the same thing, that I cannot write in this volume...
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Mar 3, 2010
While copying big folders in ubuntu using cp command,it takes a long time to copy in which no status comes on the console while copying.Is there any way to see the status of copying big file while the system is copying the files?
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