Make 1:1 copy of disk in odd situation
Hi all.
Let me describe my odd problem.
I have a 120GB IDE hdd on which there is a 2GB swap partition and other space is for linux / partition. This hdd was in use for years, not i became loud and i want to migrate to a never hdd.
So i bough a WD Raptor 74GB 10.000Rpm, on which i would like to put my system, offcourse same as on that IDE drive, so i would like just to copy it to new drive. Old one is bigger but there is only 30GB space used on the /. So 74GB new drive will be big enough.
I tried with dd, offcourse it did not work, because new drive not being the same. Tried paragon disk copy, it copied nicely all the data and made some kind of partition resizing. It did not boot, and when i done fcsk on / it worked for about 4 hours and then hangs as well, probably that program did not make as good job as i though he did.
Tried to do a quick install of open suse 10.2 and then just cp -R -f */new, where /new being the new os drive with basic opensuse install just so i got MBR and partitions. There is a problem with file ownership then, and MBR not working etc.
So what are my options,*or*better*said*what*is*the*recipe*to*get*this*working ?
Thanx.
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