On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote:
It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is /dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command should work:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
I've heard people recommend this before, but I'm not sure why this is better than cp -a ? I do remember that the last time I tried to copy a whole directory to a new partition I had some problems before I got it right, so I want to be clear before I start.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
suggests to use cp -a
I used that howto many times (either to recover from disk failure or to prepare a copy of the current distribution to a different partition before an upgrade) and I found it very useful.
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