[ltp] Upgrade HD

[Uwe Walter]

On So, 2005-02-13 at 10:47 -0600, Jim Harvey wrote:
> Try the tar trick.

http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html

states that 

"Previous versions of the Mini How-To stated that you could also use
"tar" to copy the disk, but this method was found to have a bug."

However, I have no knowledge about which bug and if it has been
resolved. 


I have often copied my system to other harddisks, using dd, partimage
for partitions or the whole HD. Additionally sometimes "cp -a" for
file-based copy of the linux partition. Usually I clone first and adapt
the partition scheme to the new HD (e.g. its bigger size) in a second
step using Partition Managers (e.g. Acronis' Partition Expert).

However, there are also a lot of howtos, describing how to clone a
Windows partition file-based with its "xcopy" command and some magic
parameters, here are some German examples for that:
http://www.heise.de/ct/faq/result.xhtml?url=/ct/faq/hotline/03/25/10.shtml
http://www.heise.de/ct/faq/result.xhtml?url=/ct/faq/hotline/02/02/04.shtml
However, these parameters can depend on the Windows/xcopy version.
(Personally, I still prefer to clone Windows Partitions image-based. ;))


Greetings, UW(e)