Re: dd to clone hard drive

[Michael Mansour <micoots yahoo com>]

Interesting.. I'm thinking of upgrading the primary
disk on my server from a 6Gb disk - linux installation
- to a 9Gb disk - linux installation.

Could I plug in the second disk, dd all the stuff from
the 6gig disk to the 9 gig disk, pull out the 6gig
disk, replace it with the 9gig disk and away I go?

I use RH8 with grub.

Michael.

 --- "Willem van der Walt<willem top health gov za>"
<willem top health gov za> wrote: > Hi,
> I have done what you want to do although it was not
> win 2000.
> You might get an io error at the end of dd but
> things should work fine.
> It should copy the hole thing as is and it should
> work.
> Just check xxx records in and xxx records out to
> make sure they are the 
> same.
> regards, willem
> 
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm pretty certain this has been asked before and
> I did find a few
> > things on Google, but I'd like to be sure to
> understand it fully...
> > 
> > I have two 20GB hard drives with the same
> geometry, the only
> > difference being that one of them is a more
> "silent" version.
> > In the end, I want to use the "silent" one for
> Linux. However, there's
> > a Win00 installation on that drive at the moment,
> which I'd like to
> > keep as is. Hence my question:
> > 
> > Is it possible to "clone" that Win00 installation
> from one drive to
> > the other using dd? Has anybody tried this - and
> what were the
> > experiences? Am I right in assuming that the
> command is simply
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb  (maybe with a
> blocksize to increase speed)
> > - and will that also copy any bootblocks that
> Win00 might use?
> > Any information appreciated, though I'm really
> after a solution that
> > can be done with Linux' tools, as my knowledge
> about Win is close to
> > nil...
> > 
> > Cheerio,
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> 
> 
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