Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 10 Nov 2003 6:24 am, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote:
> > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> > dd can copy anything anywhere that there exist sectors
> > to read & write. The example above should copy the MBR and
> > partition tables, as well as all files on all partitions.
> That sounds good. But how do I handle the various partitions? Do I
> partition the new drive first? And format them?
That command copies all sectors, including partition table sectors, like
when you do 'dd if=somefloppyimage of=/dev/fd0' to create an
installation diskette. AFAIK, it's exactly what the very first Ghost or
Partition Image versions would have done.
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