Clone a Hard drive?


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I have a 40gb disk that has redhat on it. I didn't setup seperate partition for anything, so everything is on / (except /boot and swap). I tried using ghost to clone the drive to a 120gb, but then it didn't boot properly. It just hangs at the point where grub loads. I wasn't sure of how to fix grub at this point. Any advice on a better way to clone or a way to fix this problem? I'm not exactly a newb, but not the most experienced in this area either. Here is a df -h:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              35G   17G   16G  53% /
/dev/hda1              99M   46M   49M  49% /boot
none                  504M     0  504M   0% /dev/shm

Thanks for any help.

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im not effecient enough using tar but there is a tar way to do it and a dd way.. but there again i haven't actually done either before so i hope this gives you a starting point

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use your rescue disk to look at the conf file for GRUB to see if its pointing to the right spot. Maybe it changed your drives around. since you only have on drive it will be hda, but maybe the numbers are not correct anymore.

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