Hi Andrew, Thanks for the response. But no the drives are not exactly the same. However, the original drive and its partitions will comfortably fit in the new drive. That is why I need a less simple approach using sfdisk, mke2fs, cpio, etc.
thanks, Stuart Quoting Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > IF (and only if) the drives are geometrically the same, you can use dd: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > to copy directly disk-to-disk, or to save to a file for later dumping to > a disk: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=<filename> > > of course, <filename> will be very big and must not be on /dev/hda or > you will create yourself a nasty little paradox. > > Andy Perrin >
