On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:11 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > > > That depends on whether the drives are exactly the same or not. if they > > are the same > > > > dd if=/dev/driveyouwanttocopyfrom of=/dev/driveyouwanttocoppyto > > The same in what way? How they're partioned? I'm gonna use the same > partition setup as the original disk.
The same size. dd does a byte-by-byte copy, including the MBR and the partition table. If the target drive is bigger then the extra space will be lost. If it's smaller then it will end up corrupt. -- Richard Urwin
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