Bilal Ahmed Mazhar writes:

Is there any way to duplicate a Linux OS with file systems to another hard disk? I mean Norton Ghost type utility is needed to transfer 17 GB SCSI hard disk image to 32 GB SCSI hard disk in order to come out disk space problem and old disk replacement.

I recommend you use LVM to prevent the recurence of this problem.

The following links may be useful. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue20/lg_tips20.html#disk http://gazette.euskal-linux.org/issue19/lg_tips19.html#duplic http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue18/lg_tips18.html#disk http://kennethhunt.com/archives/000393.html

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On Jan 7, 2003 at 13:03, Bilal Ahmed Mazhar wrote:

Is there any way to duplicate a Linux OS with file systems to another hard disk? I mean Norton Ghost type utility is needed to transfer 17 GB SCSI hard disk image to 32 GB SCSI hard disk in order to come out disk space problem and old disk replacement.

Usually I handle this by insrting both drives, botting into single user mode, mounting the second drives partitions, and using cp -ax on each old partition to copy the files to the new one. You'll have to change fstab, lilo or other bootloader, etc. by hand.