Dear MacOS X users
There's a iMac G4 with a fairly full HD (there's a 10 GB ATA drive from Quantum in it). I'd like to replace this drive to a larger one but migrate the whole MacOS X installation so I'm looking for a utility like PowerQuest's Partition Magic (and its "brother tool" DriveImage) from the i386/Microsoft world. Such a tool would allow me to temporarily attach the old small disk together on a i386 machine, starting a Linux und run a "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" i.e. just cloning every sector to the target disk and then applying a "Partition Magic" like operation to expand the journaled HFS partition.
If there aren't any such utilities, a way where i can temporarily attach both drives simultaneously on the ATA ribbon, booting from a MacOS installation DVD and going to a single user mode shell to run fdisk and mkfs on the target drive, applying a big piped "tar" command (one process is reading from the source and the other is writing on the target) and then applying a special bootstrap rebuilding command is also fine because it's a one time action.
There's a iMac G4 with a fairly full HD (there's a 10 GB ATA drive from Quantum in it). I'd like to replace this drive to a larger one but migrate the whole MacOS X installation so I'm looking for a utility like PowerQuest's Partition Magic (and its "brother tool" DriveImage) from the i386/Microsoft world. Such a tool would allow me to temporarily attach the old small disk together on a i386 machine, starting a Linux und run a "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" i.e. just cloning every sector to the target disk and then applying a "Partition Magic" like operation to expand the journaled HFS partition.
If there aren't any such utilities, a way where i can temporarily attach both drives simultaneously on the ATA ribbon, booting from a MacOS installation DVD and going to a single user mode shell to run fdisk and mkfs on the target drive, applying a big piped "tar" command (one process is reading from the source and the other is writing on the target) and then applying a special bootstrap rebuilding command is also fine because it's a one time action.
