New ide hard drive and dual boot

[mikeblake]

I have a dual boot system and just bought a larger hard drive.

On previous Windows systems I've done the fdsik and Xcopy thing.

But how do I do this with a dual boot system?
Can I still create the partitions and use xcopy to copy the linux partitions also?

Thanks,
Mike

[jetblackz]

What exactly do you want to do?

[mikeblake]

Sorry, I should have been more specific.

I want to copy the old dual boot IDE drive contents to the new larger hard drive and make this my new hard drive. There's both Windows98 and Linux partitions.

I know I can mount the new IDE as a slave, fdisk the new disk and xcopy(image copy) windows.
But how do I copy the Linux OS and files to the new drive?
Does xcopy also copy linux?(I suspect not)
I'm wondering is there an image copy utility in Linux?

Thanks,
Mike

[mdwatts]

Besides using included Linux commands such as cp -a (man cp) and others, I believe GNU Parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/) supports copying ext2/ext3 partitions.

PartImage may also work. Search freshmeat.net for PartImage.

[banzaikai]

Howdy.

WDC seems to be down, but Maxtor says to look at the following:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade

This means that the MaxBlast (or WD DataLifeguard) tools won't copy a Linux partition, as they were written with FAT32 and NTFS in mind (some know OS/2 as well - go figure).

Hope this helps...
banzai