Re: Copying one hard drive to another

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Subject: Re: Copying one hard drive to another
From: Nathan E Norman <nnorman@micromuse.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:52:10 -0500
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010512210617.A21768@tux>; from cmatheson3@yahoo.com on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> 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?

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
cd <mountpoint of /dev/hda1>
find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt

Voila ...

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