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Haven't tried Disk Magic to do this, but I have used Norton Ghost to
clone MS and Linux partitions and it worked great. It works great for
entire disks or for individual partitions. It will create the
partitions for you or you can specify which new partitions to clone to.
"Arun K." wrote:
>
> I want to clone (loosely speaking) the entire HDD of an installed, pruned and
> configured Linux system (master disk).
>
> The installation has separate 'devices' for /boot (1st primary), / (2nd
> primary), /usr (logical), swap (3rd primary), /var (logical), /home (logical)
> filesystems (the partition table has 3 primary partitions and 1 extended
> partition with logical partitions). All filesystems are ext2. The target HDD
> capacity is >= master disk (but the resp. disk geometry may not be the same).
>
> Can this be done using tools available in Linux w/o creating the partitions
> individually and then coping them over? (I have tried dd with 2 540MB HDDs -
> no good because disk geometries were different)
>
> Alternatively, has any one tried PowerQuest's "Disk Magic" (not sure of the
> name). PQ claims it can clone MS OSs and Linux.
>
> TIA
> --
> Arun K.
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