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dd cloning of whole disk
Post 302681345 by Royalist on Friday 3rd of August 2012 08:09:41 AM
08-03-2012
Success Thanks to you all
Yes! 'dd' does work. Scrutiniser's 'bs=1M' did the job. A bootable clone in 2.75hours with results returned with no discrepancies.
Previously, I had taken the advice re-unfillable sink etc from Alister and used that method to test the various signals that had been suggested. Not one achieved the expected result, but then I may have mis-applied them perhaps.
The clone's partitions have now been resized with GParted with no apparent data loss and the new partitions are now in use.
Finally, I have done my history homework and read up about the GNU and Linux and looked for an apparent non existent link to IBM. I now understanding the grounding of Ubuntu.
Thank you all for being so patient.
Regards
Roy
Previously, I had taken the advice re-unfillable sink etc from Alister and used that method to test the various signals that had been suggested. Not one achieved the expected result, but then I may have mis-applied them perhaps.
The clone's partitions have now been resized with GParted with no apparent data loss and the new partitions are now in use.
Finally, I have done my history homework and read up about the GNU and Linux and looked for an apparent non existent link to IBM. I now understanding the grounding of Ubuntu.
Thank you all for being so patient.
Regards
Roy
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
fatresize
FATRESIZE(1) General Commands Manual FATRESIZE(1) NAME
fatresize -- Resize an FAT16/FAT32 volume non-destructively SYNOPSIS
fatresize [-s SIZE] [device] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the fatresize This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. -h --help Show summary of options. -s --size Resize volume to SIZE[k|M|G|ki|Mi|Gi] bytes -i --info Show volume information -p --progress Show progress -q --quite Be quite -v --verbose Verbose (not version) EXAMPLES
fatresize -s 2G /dev/evms/hdb2 fatresize -q -s 3G /dev/hde6 fatresize -i /dev/hdg3 Size and device is required to run. You can resize device-mapped partitions, e.g. EVMS partitions. BUGS
You can't resize FAT32 partition lesser than 512Mb because Windows(R) doesn't work properly with small FAT32 file system. Use FAT16. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Philippe Coval rzr@gna.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. FATRESIZE(1)