Fedora :: Disk Copy Utility - Should Be Able To Not Only Copy Files But Boot Sector And Everything

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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[Code]....

i followed as in the [URL] and [URL] and except this "Note that you will need read/write permissions on whatever serial port you specify in .gnokiirc."(iam confused what is my serial port is it ttyUSB2)

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I'm a newbe with linux, thought it's a great OS but I'm nearly giving up. Nothing works like it should, to copy stupid files across you have to be some kind of wizz to do it.
I installed fresh copy of fedora 13, created folder on the desktop and connected via usb external hd.
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Apr 13, 2011

I am attempting to copy files from one server to an external USB drive on a second server. Both servers are running custom RedHat Linux, kernel 2.6. Both are setup as Check Point SecurePlatform (one is a log server and the other a management server). I am trying to archive files from one (HP DL380 G5) to the second (HP DL380 G6). I am not able to archive directly to the external usb drive when connected to the HP DL380 G5 (data gets corrupted and switches to read-only access). The external USB drive has no issues when connected to the HP DL380 G6 server, thus my reason for trying to copy the files across servers.

When I attempt to use scp to copy files between the server, I am prompted for the password. Once entered the debug shows the authentication is successful, but then no files are copied (see log below). I have tried searching for potential answers, but none have panned out. Unfortunately I can't yet post the actual scp debug log output as some of the text is viewed as a URL and not yet allowed for me. I have changed all the atsign symbols to '(a)' to avoid the URL inference.

Output log from scp attempt follows:
[Expert(a)server1]# scp -p -r -v /var/fromhere/* copyfile(a)server2:/media/disk/tohere/
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host server2, user copyfile, command scp -v -r -p -d -t /media/disk/tohere/
OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090707f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: Connecting to server2 [192.168.10.3] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1 .....
debug1: Exit status 1
lost connection
[Expert(a)server1]#

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Mar 1, 2011

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Oct 1, 2009

As the post title says I have attempted to move my FC11 from a 120 gig ide drive to a 250 gig sata drive. I have tried all of the following with the same result listed below: Basic setup is as folows:

old hdd /dev/sda1 (boot) /dev/sda2(swap) /dev/sda3 (/)

attempt 1- boot fc11 live cd with old drive detected as sda and nwe drive detected as sdb.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512

attempt 2 - boot into fc11 live cd fdisk remove old partitionon /dev/sdb and create exact copy of partition table on /dev/sda on /dev/sdb - mark /sdb1 as bootable and copy /dev/sda1 + /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb3

dd if=/dev/sda* of=/dev/sdb* bs=512 (* denotes 1 or 3 respectively)

attempt 3 boot linux rescue cd based on debian

run gparted to remove old partitions on /dev/sdb
use gparted to copy partitions from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb

All of the above result in the following (as best as I can describe it)

system self checks OK
system loads GRUB menu -OK
system appears to load kernel and then hangs after outputting device information regarding my USB keyboard and mouse.

Is there some magic that I am missing? system.map perhaps? Additonal info: grub.conf looks like:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that

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Untill now was ok but after upgrade to fedora 14 or 15 that i have tried when i try to copy from or to files the raid collapse and rebuilds data(i dont loose data) .....

I want to take the data from it so i can format it with ext3 or ntfs and use with my server on the network,or if there is any solution with the ext4 format

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Jun 1, 2010

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I have used dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda and it works for one-to-one operations. I tried dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc but the command skips the of=/dev/sdb and copies to sdc....I knew that was going to be too easy

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Mar 13, 2009

I added another disk to an old Dell Dim2400 that had one HD. It was a blank disk, and instead fo re-loading and re-configuring SuSE, F10, and PCLOS, I did a cp command from another multi-boot computer, like so:

Code:
cp /dev/sda dev/sdd
sda is an 80G Seagate, with SuSE, F10, and PCLOS.
sdd is an 80G Western Digital.

The copy went perfect. It begins to load SuSE in the old Dell, showing new peripheral hardware, but it stops when it realizes it's on a WD and not on a Seagate. The line is something like, 'Looking for dev/by-uid=xxx-123-Seagate-yyy'. It asks if I want to go to the next device to boot up. I enter 'NO', because it will go to Windows.

It then exits to 'bin/sh' prompt (or something close (shell?)).

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