[ale] cloning a hard drive

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

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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