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From: Othersongs on 17 Oct 2009 19:59
Clone QNX/POSIX HDD via Acronis or Norton Ghost?

Anyone know if booting from a bootable disc of Acronis
or Norton Ghost, will permit me to:

1. Clone an existing Clone QNX/POSIX HDD (250GB) to a new 500GB HDD?

(my hunch is that both will permit this)

2. The tougher part may be in how to expand the main partition (on the original
250GB) to become larger and take up most of the new 500GB.

Any/all thoughts on what I'll have to do will be appreciated.

Cheers
From: Rod Speed on 18 Oct 2009 00:59
Othersongs wrote:

> Clone QNX/POSIX HDD via Acronis or Norton Ghost?

> Anyone know if booting from a bootable disc of Acronis
> or Norton Ghost, will permit me to:

> 1. Clone an existing Clone QNX/POSIX HDD (250GB) to a new 500GB HDD?

> (my hunch is that both will permit this)

Yes.

Not clear what version of Ghost you are talking about, some wont do that.

> 2. The tougher part may be in how to expand the main partition (on the
> original 250GB) to become larger and take up most of the new 500GB.

Any decent modern cloner will do that. Very easy with Acronis True Image.

> Any/all thoughts on what I'll have to do will be appreciated.

With Acronis True Image you just tell it what to clone and tell
it the size you want the partition on the 500GB drive to be.


From: Arno on 18 Oct 2009 01:57
Othersongs <post(a)onng.net> wrote:
> Clone QNX/POSIX HDD via Acronis or Norton Ghost?

> Anyone know if booting from a bootable disc of Acronis
> or Norton Ghost, will permit me to:

> 1. Clone an existing Clone QNX/POSIX HDD (250GB) to a new 500GB HDD?

> (my hunch is that both will permit this)

Size change requires filesystem support. O doubt very
muich that Acronis or Ghost support that for rteh QNX filesystem.
The only thing that should work is a sector-wise (1:1) copy.

Incidentially, you are using the wrong tool. QNX is Unix-like,
so you should use Unix tools.

> 2. The tougher part may be in how to expand the main partition (on the original
> 250GB) to become larger and take up most of the new 500GB.

> Any/all thoughts on what I'll have to do will be appreciated.

Simple: Copy it over via (GNU) tar after having created a new filesystem
on the target and having mounted it somewhere:

tar cf - --one0file-system <old-root-partition> |
(cd <new-root-partition>; tar xvf -)

Arno
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