Re: Clon disks with dd command
Alejandro wrote:
> Hi all, I have a Debian Etch machine with a SCSI HD as a master disk. I
> want to make a clon to another similar SCSI HD (same model and size), in
> order to use it if the production disk fails.
>
> People talk about "dd" command, telling it's possible to get a exact
> mirror from one disk to another just running this:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>
> Is this just the solution ??? No matter with the MBR or something else ???
That only works if both disks are the same size. If that's not the case,
take a look at the Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO.
http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
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