Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

[Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:32, Alan Connor wrote:

> Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems.

Yes.  dd can pick up partition information for this reason.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=512

will transfer across the partitions and the master boot record.  It's
not clear what it will do if source is the hardware raid system he's
using.

In my case, I'm slowly shrinking my Window$ paritions, so need to bring
across the partition info in my backup.

Cheers,
Bret
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