Re: disk cloning with dd

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Subject: Re: disk cloning with dd
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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:37:28 -0700 (PDT)
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Werner Otto wrote:

Can one use dd on a mounted partition, if so will it clone the boot
partition aswell and good to boot from?

Don't use dd on a mounted partition. Any files that change while dd is running will end up corrupted on the new drive, and likely the filesystem itself will be corrupted. Boot from a CD or another drive, or at least unmount the partition being copied. Or better use rsync, which will work correctly even with mounted partition.

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