[Luna] Another one bites the dust

[Shane Lofgren]

I would give Norton Ghost a try.  It should work just fine ghosting your
Linux OS to a new HD of larger size.  Check out this link from symantec:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999021909463125?Open&src=&docid=2000033111503625&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

Here is a snippet from the link:
"*Situation:*
You are preparing to use Ghost to clone a computer that contains the Linux
operating system, and you want to know whether your version of Linux has
been tested with Ghost.

*Solution:*
Whether Ghost can clone a drive or a partition from a Linux computer depends
on the version of Ghost, the version of Linux, and the type of file system.
In general, Ghost versions prior to 6.0 can do only sector-by-sector copies
of entire drives. Ghost versions 6.0 and later are compatible with many
versions of Linux and can clone both drives and individual partitions.

*Supported file systems*
All Ghost versions support sector copy operations for Linux disks. Sector
copy operations can clone entire disks and not individual partitions.

Ghost versions that support EXT2 or EXT3 can perform a native copy
operation, which supports the cloning of individual partitions. Ghost
versions that support EXT2 or EXT3 partitions allow all of the same
functionality on EXT2 and EXT3 partitions as they do with FAT and NTFS
partitions.

Ghost does not support other Linux file systems such as Reiserfs."

Let us know how it goes.


On 9/21/06, Kyle Winfree <kyle.winfree at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>     Just had another hd fail on me yesterday.  However, the hd my OS is
> on is about the same age.  I'd like to replace it asap.  However, is
> there an easy way of replacing it without reinstalling the whole OS (ie:
> ghosting, given a hd of a different size n such)?  What if I move to
> SATA, do I need to do the full on reinstall?
> Thanks,
> Kyle
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