Re: Conezilla vs dd

2011-07-14 Thread Brian Parma
On 07/14/2011 02:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: I was wondering if the list has a preference for clonezilla over a plain ol' dd to clone a drive. From: Stephen I like clonzilla for base metal backups. very handy with windows based OS's dd is g

Re: Conezilla vs dd

2011-07-14 Thread Matt Graham
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >> I was wondering if the list has a preference for clonezilla over a plain ol' >> dd to clone a drive. From: Stephen > I like clonzilla for base metal backups. very handy with windows based OS's > dd is great for anything else. If a filesys

Re: Conezilla vs dd

2011-07-14 Thread Stephen
I like clonzilla for base metal backups. very handy with windows based OS's dd i great for anything else. I think clonezilla uses dd under the hood, but i cant remember. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I bought a larger hard drive for my laptop, so I need to clones my ex

Re: Conezilla vs dd

2011-07-14 Thread Alan Dayley
Clonezilla is designed and easy to use for exactly this need. Use dd if you want more control and don't mind using an additional tool to adjust the partition sizes. Alan On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I bought a larger hard drive for my laptop, so I need to clones my exist

Conezilla vs dd

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Phillips
I bought a larger hard drive for my laptop, so I need to clones my existing drive to the new drive. I have one of those cool usb hardrive caddies for my new drive, so all I need to do is fire up a live cd and clone the disk. I know I will have to repartition the new drive once it is cloned to recap