[svlug] ATA to SATA

[Kelly Williams]

Scott Hess wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2008 6:57 PM, Debian Intermediate <jj1234ff at lycos.com> wrote:
>   
>> Got it formated and started the copy
>> but keep running into problems in /proc and
>> /sys where there are hundreds of special files that are write only.
>>     
>
> You probably don't want to copy over /proc, /sys, or /dev.  /proc and
> /sys are virtual filesystems which are generated on-the-fly.  /dev may
> also be, or may not, depending on config, but is probably not that
> useful to copy regardless.
>
> The command 'df -a' shows me all of these instances on an Ubuntu
> system, and seems more reliable than looking at /etc/fstab (which
> shows the proc filesystem, but not /sys and udev and others).
>
> -scott
>
> what i would use is clonezilla. Make a image of the hard drive and transfer the image to next hard drive. i used it last week on my laptop it worked great. 
> http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/download/sourceforge
>
> Kelly Williams 
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