Duplicating a Fedora PC
Ow Mun Heng
ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Mon Apr 19 02:24:08 UTC 2004
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> On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote:
>
> > > 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?
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