Re: Copying a harddisk to another using dd

[Steffan Baron <sbaron@wiwi.hu-berlin.de>]

If both hd's have the same geometry just use their device names as
arguments to the 'if' and 'of' arguments, for example

$ dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy

If not, you can partition the second disk *exactly* the same way the
old one is partitioned to copy the partitions one after another, for
example

$ dd if=/dev/hdx1 of=/dev/hdy1

and so on for every partition number.

Gruss
Steffan


On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, irvine.russell@edu.hel.fi wrote:
>
>Hello all
>
>Can someone give me someadvice on how I 
>would use dd to copy the contents of one
>harddisk to another hardisk on the same 
>machine.
>
>I want really to copy my linux stuff to a
>new harddisk and get rid of the old hd.
>
>T:Irvine
>
>
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