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cloning hard disk



Hello,

I would like to clone my Debian Woody system onto a second larger hard disk. 
It seems to me that it would just be a matter of cleaning off the second 
disk, partioning using fdisk, and then running:

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

where hdc is the drive from which I am copying my current system, and hda is 
the drive I want to put this system on.

current hdc partition table (2 Gb disk):

	Device Boot	Start	End	Blocks	 Id System
     /dev/hdc1		    1	 13      52384+    83 Linux
     /dev/hdc2                   14      449   1757952     83 Linux
     /dev/hdc3                 450      523     298368     82 Linux swap

How I plan to partition hda (30 Gb disk):

	Device Boot	Start	End	Blocks	 Id System
     /dev/hda1		    1	 13        52384    83 Linux
     /dev/hda2                   14    3704   29647957+  83 Linux
     /dev/hda3                3705     523       298368    82 Linux swap

Can anyone see anything wrong with this, or would you tell me anything I 
should watch out for? Anything I should find out about my current system 
first? It seems that this could be fatal if it is not done right.

Thank you, Allasso



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