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[daggo]

Can I use Nortons Ghost to clone my TiVO hard drive? I got a bunch of 300G drives that I now can't put in 7200.9 :(

But I have some 250G drives that I want to put in. So can I clone the 120G drive in my TiVO now to a 250G? And then I follow the wiki for putting in the 2nd drive? Or is there some other method for cloning drive 1 to a new drive?

[thomson]

Can I use Nortons Ghost to clone my TiVO hard drive? I got a bunch of 300G drives that I now can't put in 7200.9 :(

But I have some 250G drives that I want to put in. So can I clone the 120G drive in my TiVO now to a 250G? And then I follow the wiki for putting in the 2nd drive? Or is there some other method for cloning drive 1 to a new drive?

Boot of one of the network/image CD's and use one of the following commands to copy the contents of the master (hda) to the slave (hdb):



mfsbackup -l 32 -6so - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
<or>
mfstool backup -aqo - /dev/hda | mfstool restore -r 4 -s 127 -pxi - /dev/hdb

[daggo]

Thanks mate.

[petestrash]

And for the record Norton's Ghost will not work on TiVo drives, because it requires booting windows which will write to any attached TiVo drive making it unbootable.

Peter

[Paul]

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I'm about to do the move from a 30Gb to 250Gb drive. The problem I can see is the swap partition size. Is there a way to copy from one drive to another and end up with a larger swap partition?

cheers

Paul

[Darren King]

The default swap should be 127 if you used the installer CD and did not alter the swap value. This size is also OK for a 250GB hard disk.

[Paul]

I used a swap of 64Mb as per http://131.244.9.101/twiki/bin/view/Install/PrepareTiVoDisk

[Darren King]

Fair enough. Sorry I missed that (my name appears on the twiki but I did not write that bit).

Personally I have never done that, electing to use the opening comments of that section only as my guideline: "The default (127MB) swap partition size is OK for total disk storage of up to 274GB." I have never seen such message of "drive too small" regarding using 127 on drives lower than 40GB - even for my test hard disks down to only a few gig in size.

Not being a software orientated person I can't tell you how to expand the swap manually.

[petestrash]

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I'm about to do the move from a 30Gb to 250Gb drive. The problem I can see is the swap partition size. Is there a way to copy from one drive to another and end up with a larger swap partition?

The problem this OP was talking about, but did not mention specifically is that Seagate 7200.9 drives 250GB+ won't work in a dual drive TiVo.

See Seagate_7200_9_hard_drives_over.

Peter.

[Paul]

The problem this OP was talking about, but did not mention specifically is that Seagate 7200.9 drives 250GB+ won't work in a dual drive TiVo.


Peter.

Thanks Peter, I understood that but wanted to know if I could use the method given by thomson to copy my 30Gb to the 250Gb and then fix up the swap partition size.

[daggo]

And for the record Norton's Ghost will not work on TiVo drives, because it requires booting windows which will write to any attached TiVo drive making it unbootable.

Peter

No not really. If you make a Nortons boot disk (cd or floppy) it boots up into IBM DOS. The winblows add-on still makes the pcs that Nortons is on boot up in IBM DOS. It just makes it easier for people who can't/won't make floppy boot disk.

I'll use the method above and after that I'll give the Nortons a test on a spare drive to see if any damage happens.

Matt.

[thomson]

Thanks Peter, I understood that but wanted to know if I could use the method given by thomson to copy my 30Gb to the 250Gb and then fix up the swap partition size.
The mfs backup/restore is the perfect way to transfer from a 30GB to a 250GB. The commands setup a 127MB swap (using -s 127) which will work just fine on a 250GB drive.

[Paul]

Thanks for that thomson. Unfortunatly I was too impatient,I reimaged the drive and went through guided setup again. I'll file it away for future reference.

cheers

Paul