Je 2001/05/14(1)/11:05, Nathan E Norman montris sian geniecon skribante: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is > > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of how > > to > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > cd <mountpoint of /dev/hda1> > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
that (well, I'd do it with tar) is probably the best. BUT -- I've got 3 hardisks of 20 Gig, and when I copy the contents from one to another, I do use dd (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=102400), and it works miraculausly well:). I do suppose it will fail if the disks aren't exactly the same size, though. And I've never tried copying partitions -- but, it they are the same sizes, it might work to. -- joostje
