Swap 32gb Cf For Microdrive, Easy Way to Do This... Options

[ArchiMark]

Decided to take the plunge and got a new 32GB A-Data CF Card today....



Want to do this swap the right way and hopefully easy way....

I assume that I can 'clone' my current Debian EABI setup on my existing 6GB microdrive over to the new 32GB CF card, right?

Would this be the right way to do it?

1) Format new 32GB card and make 2 partitions; ext3 (/dev/hdc1 /mnt/cf) and a small swap (512MB on /dev/hdc2 /mnt/cf2).

2) Copy over current microdrive debian contents on hda2 over to new ext3 partition on 32GB CF card by doing:

CODE

#dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/cf

* Note: hda1 on my existing microdrive is my swap partition.

So, is this correct way???

Thanks!

Mark

This post has been edited by ArchiMark: Apr 1 2008, 07:24 PM

[ajnk]

I had to do something similar last night, when I managed to make my 16gb CF unbootable, fortunately i had my 4gb I was using until about 1 month ago :-

1) Attached 4gb microdrive to laptop using USB adapter, checked the filesystem (just to be safe).
2) Mount 4gb microdrive (/media/disk in this case)
3) cd /media/disk
4) copy contents to laptop HD (I wanted a) a backup a fast way to redo the process if I messed up)
mkdir /home/andy/z/cf_recovery
find . | cpio -pdmv /home/andy/z/cf_recovery
5) wait .......
6) once the copy was complete umount /media/disk
7) Disassemble Z (c3100 in my case)
9) Retrieve CF card from Z, attach to lappy via USB.
10) It automounted on /media/disk, so I unmounted it.
11) Create an ext2 filesystem (yes I want ext3 journaling, but i am going to dump a lot of data in a stable environment so I don't need the journal - it would only slow things down).
mke2fs /dev/hdb1
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda1
(turns off fsck after a number of mounts).
12) mount the cf card (mount /dev/hdb1 /media/disk)
13) cd /home/andy/z/cf_recovery
13) find . | cpio -pdmv /media/disk
14) wait .....
15) umount cf card, insert in Z, rebuild Z - hey presto - working fs

BTW. If you need to repeat step 13) for any reason either remake the filesystem or add the 'u' flag (unconditional overwrite) to the cpio.

Hope this helps
ajnk

(Then I did an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade )