Steve, Is partclone.dd on the clonezilla CD? Do you know what the proper command would be to copy everything (with the status) from SDA to SDB? Sorry for asking to be spoonfed but I am not 100% clear on the CLI & I don’t want to mess up my source.
Thanks, Rich -----Original Message----- From: Steven Shiau [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla? Hi Rich, On 2010年06月24日 21:36, Richard Klein wrote: > Steve, > > I would very much prefer to use clonezilla. I need a bit by bit copy of the > hard drive. I tried a few times& clonezilla says it cant recognize the > partition which is why I am looking toward DD. > > I was planning to use this command for a DD transfer (if you think it will > work): > > dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdd conv=notrunc& DDPID=$! ; sleep 1 ; while kill > -USR1 $DDPID ; do sleep 5 ; done > Yes, this will work. BTW, as I mentioned, you can try partclone.dd. it will give you a better progress report. Steven. > > Thanks, > Rich > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Shiau [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla? > > So why you use dd instead of Clonezilla TUI? > If you really want to use dd and get some progress message when it's > running, you can try partclone.dd, it's available in Clonezilla live, too. > For more info, run: > partclone.dd --help > > Steven. > > On 2010/6/24 上午 07:15, Richard Klein wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to clone a drive using the DD portion of the clonezilla CD. >> I am looking to use this command: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb >> What happens is I seem to be getting impatient since there is no >> progress indicator. I keep doing a control + C& then it appears to stop >> with a progress. >> I was curious, is there an additional command that i could put so it >> would display some sort of status? >> The 2TB drive is really time consuming. >> Thanks, >> Rich >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Clonezilla-live mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >> > -- Steven Shiau<steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
