Re: disk duplication question

[Stuart Marshall <stuart@igpp.ucllnl.org>]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the response.  But no the drives are not exactly the
same.  However, the original drive and its partitions will
comfortably fit in the new drive.  That is why I need a less
simple approach using sfdisk, mke2fs, cpio, etc.

thanks,
Stuart

Quoting Andrew Perrin (aperrin@socrates.berkeley.edu):
> IF (and only if) the drives are geometrically the same, you can use dd:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> 
> to copy directly disk-to-disk, or to save to a file for later dumping to
> a disk:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=<filename>
> 
> of course, <filename> will be very big and must not be on /dev/hda or
> you will create yourself a nasty little paradox.
> 
> Andy Perrin
>