[H-GEN] Coping one h/d to another

[dash]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:09 -0700, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
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> On 4/5/06, David <djmunn at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > i have hda drive set up with a Win XP primary partition
> > which has gone belly up.....the Extended partition has Mandriva Linux
> > 2006 in 3 partitions hda5 /boot hda6 Swap and hda7 /
> 
> > it is these 3 partitions that i want to copy to hdb
> > which has hdb1 /boot hdb2 Swap and
> > hdb3 / setup on it.
> 
> There's no point whatsoever copying your swap partition:  it's not
> treated persistently across reboots anyway.  So you might as well just
> create the
> hdb2 partition, set it to the swap partition type, and run mkswap on it.  Easy.

There might be any point for persistence but it does work though AFAIK
using dd at least