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Old September 14th, 2005, 11:04 PM
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so I originally put my linux partition on a 20GB drive, now that is not enough, if I bought a bigger drive, how could I put the OS from the 20 on the bigger one without loosing data? maybe wrong forum.
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Old September 14th, 2005, 11:15 PM
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Look into the text-based program 'parted'. It will (I believe) let you copy a filesystem from one drive/partition to another.

I've only used that feature once, for a small 512mb usb stick, so I don't know how well it will work on a larger scale.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/m...ted.html#SEC14
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Old September 16th, 2005, 12:21 AM
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okay so I take the windows hdd out, I get and error before lilo, then I tried without the linux drive and I get all this binary output error,could I use a serial ATA drive with 2 EIDE hdds?
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