F9: Mounting of drives

[Dan Thurman]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> Dan Thurman wrote:
> >
> > Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the
> > dd command.  It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to
> > faithfully
> > create the / partition.
> >
> > So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the
> > partition of
> > /.  How can I do this safely?  cp -a?
> >
> > What I do not want to do is to copy over from /, the devices for 
> example
> > so what is the best method for copying over the partitions esp. that 
> of / ?
> >
> > I think /boot is not a problem with cp -a but I have a feeling / is
> > significant.
> >
> > Please advise?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dan
> >
> I have found that using tools like gparted to copy partitions tends
> to work better. There is a live CD and a live USB image that lets
> you clone the partitions while they are not mounted.
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
>
Hmm... interesting.  I will try it!

Thanks for the suggestion!
Dan