Re: cloning hard disk

[Allasso Travesser <allasso@bacavalley.com>]

On Friday 18 February 2005 02:19 pm, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Allasso Travesser wrote:
> > > > dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda
>
> bad idea ...
>
> - assumes target hda is the same size disk as hdc
> - assumes same number of heads/platters
> - assumes no defects on either disks
> - other asssumptions not as critical

Thanks. I had a gut feeling it might not be the way to go, but wasn't sure.

> 	- there is no right answer and worst still "first partition"
> 	being swap is an extreme bad idea because, "track 0" is the
> 	largest track and holds the most amt of data per disk rotation

Please explain why that makes it a bad idea.

Thanks,

Allasso