[ale] cloning a hard drive

[Geoffrey]

Thanks for the doc pointer!

Jim Philips wrote:
> The how-to on disk upgrades covers this in detail:
> 
> http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/copy.html
> 
> On Monday 01 July 2002 09:14 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>I swear I recall a discussion about this a while back, but I can't
>>locate it in the archives.
>>
>>I'd like to clone a drive, I figured something like 'dd if=/dev/hda
>>of=/dev/hdb' would be close, but that does not appear to be correct.
>>
>>I guess I could try to create identical partitions on the two drives and
>>then dd the partitions?
>>
>>The problem is probably that the drives are not the same size.
>>
>>Suggestions would be appreciated, although I'm going to continue to play
>>with this.
>>
> 
> 


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