Re: Copying one hard drive to another
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > 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
This is the preferred method to copy partitions. Some files don't
copy properly with cp or tar, and dd dosen't deal with different
partition sizes. In general dd is bad due to bad blocks. Many
new disks remap out bad blocks, but they still can develop over
time and not be mapped out by the HD's internal controller.
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