----- Original Message ----- From: "Thor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrong
Actually, I did this exact thing 3 weeks ago when I bought a 30 Gig HDD to replace my 20 Gig. I just did a straight forward #dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb I didn't have any problems. It copied several ext2fs partions, a couple of fat32 partitions and an ntfs partition. All of which worked fine straight after the copy. It did take several hours though... > you can do the copy if the target media is larger but you have > problems in the future because dd read from the original and write to the > target > also the geometry of the disk that is written in the first block of the hard > disk ! > for recovering that problem you may use a "low-level" format > utility that it is not the normal know format After the copy finished, I created an extra 10Gig partion for fat32. There were *no* problems. Dave Smith
