Re: Copying a harddisk to another using dd
You'd really really want to take a look at specifying a block size if
you take this approach, otherwise your copy is likely to take forever
and a day.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote:
>
> 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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