You'd really really want to take a look at specifying a block size if you take this approach, otherwise your copy is likely to take forever and a day.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: > > If both hd's have the same geometry just use their device names as > arguments to the 'if' and 'of' arguments, for example > > $ dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy > > If not, you can partition the second disk *exactly* the same way the > old one is partitioned to copy the partitions one after another, for > example > > $ dd if=/dev/hdx1 of=/dev/hdy1 > > and so on for every partition number. > > Gruss > Steffan > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Hello all > > > >Can someone give me someadvice on how I > >would use dd to copy the contents of one > >harddisk to another hardisk on the same > >machine. > > > >I want really to copy my linux stuff to a > >new harddisk and get rid of the old hd. > > > >T:Irvine > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
