Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Ow Mun Heng]

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> On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote:
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> > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would 
> be using dd.
> 
> > dd may be a good solution.  The man page is not too helpful 
> for me; is
> > there a write-up toward which someone can point me?
> 
> dd is really handy to have in your toolkit.  It is basically 
> a byterange 
> version of cp.
> 
> The concept is if you have two HDDs installed, say as 
> /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, 
> then you can open /dev/hda and copy what you find in that 'file' over 
> to /dev/hdb.  This makes a perfect duplicate because what is 
> 'in' /dev/hda is every sector on that hard drive.

What if the source hard-drive is smaller than the newer one?
Can it still image everything and leave the free space as free??

eg : 30Gb->80Gb?