"Austad, Jay" wrote: > Buy two of those 3.5" to 2.5" adapters and stick the drives in a standard > PC, boot with a Toms rootboot (http://www.toms.net) disk, and do a: > cat /dev/hdb > /dev/hdc (replace with proper devices of course) > > Or buy one adapter, put the drive in a pc, leave the other in your laptop, > and search the archives for "ghetto ghost". > > Then you can fdisk it and make a new partition with the extra space at the > end of the drive. However, I think there's a way to resize e2fs partitions, > though I've never done it. > > Jay I used parted to resize my partitions. Works great. I would love to try ReiserFS or XFS but haven't the time nor resorces so can't help you there. Just looked through my old mail and found this. Previous post: "Ghetto Ghost" "Austad, Jay" wrote: > So, since I don't have a copy of ghost, and I don't think ghost works with > Linux anyway, I used a couple of commands which did the same thing. > > I need to clone one of my machines to about 10 other ones. And because of > the level of customization, it would take forever to do by hand. So, I > downloaded Tom's root boot floppy from http://www.toms.net. The machine I > needed to clone was booted in read-only mode, it had an ip of 10.10.220.53. > I then booted the other machine with Tom's root boot disk and gave it the ip > 10.10.220.21. On the one I wanted to clone to, I did: > nc -l -n -v -p 6666 > /dev/sda > > On the machine I wanted to clone from, I did: > cat /dev/sda | nc -n -v 10.10.220.21 6666 > > After a couple of hours, the command finished. I unplugged the network > cable from the new machine (since it was a clone with the same ip as the > other one), and rebooted. It cloned the MBR, the partition table, and all > of the data. The machine seems to work perfectly. I changed the ip on it, > and stuck it into production and it's been performing flawlessly all > morning. > > Jay Very nice. Just get a cross over cable and go to town. HTH, sim