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:

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#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

[speculatrix]

let us know when you're back up and running.

[ArchiMark]

let us know when you're back up and running.

Thanks speculatrix.....

Meanwhile, copied over directories, cleaned out 'tmp'.....

Just did 'df' and here's what I see:

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Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used     Available    Use%     Mounted on
/dev/hda2     5589680      1317404     3988328     25%    /
tmpfs               31180                 0        31180       0%    /lib/init/rw
udev                10240               80        10160       1%    /dev
tmpfs               31180                 4        31176       1%    /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1     5589680      2419708     2886024     46%    /mnt/cf1

So......why does my existing microdrive with Debian EABI only use 25% of the drive and the new 32GB CF card use 46% of drive???

Maybe I'm just being overly cautious with all of this...but I'm trying to avoid situation where I yank out microdrive, take apart my Z and install CF card, put Z back together, and voila! it doesn't boot up or something like that....

Thanks!

[speculatrix]

So......why does my existing microdrive with Debian EABI only use 25% of the drive and the new 32GB CF card use 46% of drive???

hmm, odd.

try doing an "ls -laR" within each, redirecting output to file and diff'ing them? might need to "grep -v ^d" to omit directory names.

[ArchiMark]

So......why does my existing microdrive with Debian EABI only use 25% of the drive and the new 32GB CF card use 46% of drive???

hmm, odd.

try doing an "ls -laR" within each, redirecting output to file and diff'ing them? might need to "grep -v ^d" to omit directory names.

Thanks for the suggestion, speculatrix....

Meanwhile, decided to just bite the bullet and deleted everything on CF card and copied over stuff again....

Now, when I did 'df' I get:

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#df
Filesystem    1K-blocks     Used    Available    Use%  Mounted on
/dev/hda2     5589680     1317392    3988340    25%   /
tmpfs    31180       0       31180    0%   /lib/init/rw
udev    10240    80       10160    1%   /dev
tmpfs    31180    0       31180    1%  /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1     5589680     1386936    3918796    27%  /mnt/cf1

So, hda2 and cf1 are close now, but still slightly different.

Is this OK?? Or ???


Also, since I've:

1) 'flipped' location of Debian from second partition (hda2) on microdrive to first partition (cf1) on 32GB CF card and

2) just copied over directories as-is from microdrive to CF card

Is there going to be any issue when I yank out microdrive and put in CF card in it's place?

In other words is there any other things I need to do in order to make sure that CF will be recognized and then boot up Debian after CF card is installed?

Thanks!