Re: [users] Copying one hard drive to another

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Sat, 12 May 2001 09:06:17PM -0600):
> I need to copy everything from hard drive to another.  I'm assuming this is
> done w/ dd, but I need to be sure.  Could someone give me an example of how to
> copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1?

only if they are the same size partitions!!! otherwise use tar or
rsync!

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=512k

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