Re: [users] Copying one hard drive to another
Hey,
I'm actually copying from a 4GB to a 40GB partition, so I guess that won't
work. Would tar or rsync be more suitable for this? Oh yeah, will it still
be bootable if I use tar or rsync?
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:58:18PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> 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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