On 2006-03-20, Micha Feigin penned: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:46:15 -0600 Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> There's a few ways to do this, such as 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc' > > Will this work if the drives are not of the same size? (I want to > backup the drive so that I can restore it later if there is a > problem) >
I seem to recall that it doesn't. I believe that dd will cause the partition to think it's the size of the original partition. So it "works," but you can only use as much space as the original hard drive had. There may be a way around this limitation or to fix it after performing dd. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
