How to clone a hardrive in Fedora

[ndaka123488]

How do I clone a hardrive running fedora. I understand cloning is making axact copy but wana confirm. When I clone do drviers get installed as well.I want to clone a fedora hardv, Can anybody give me steps on how to.

[atreyu]

Yes, "cloning" is an exact copy - provided you use something low-level like dd, or more user-friendly, like clonezilla.

But why do you want to clone it? It may be you want to do something else, is why I ask.

[ndaka123488]

Hi, I have a PC running Fedora on it and it has complicated applications and drivers that I might not be able to get from the internt ans so forth, so Im thinking I should clone the hardrive so I reserve myself a headache form looking for drivers I might not get and applications that I might not know how to install.

[atreyu]

Okay, yeah, clone away. All your apps/drivers/data, will be there in the image. Just bear in mind that your cloned image may not work "out of the box" when you slap the image down on (or put the hard drive in) a different system, hardware-wise. I.e., they graphics card might be different, and you'd be in text-only world, or the NIC might be different and you'd be in stand-alone mode. These are easy fixes, just an FYI. The real problem might be if the drive is not detected properly (detected as sdc and not sda, etc.), but we can help you with that!

If I were you, I'd try the Clonezilla route.

[ndaka123488]

OOOOOOOOOOOh Sharp. let me try CloneZilla. Yes its axactly the same PC's, features and all. I have never cloned before on linux especially.

[SL6-A1000]

If worst comes to worst, i know fedora has applications that allow you to revert software back to RPMs, i think it also includes dependencies but don't quote me on that. So that is another route you could take.

[linuxwin2]

+1 CloneZilla
I used it and work fine.

[ndaka123488]

CloneZilla is the best, thanks. did it over and Clone was a success