does this work from hd to external usb disk? 2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: > > This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you > > just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original > > drive and then... > > > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 > > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 > > > > so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > > > Wouldn't that work? > > The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. > > The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while > as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. > > Things like clonezilla just copy the "used"/active sectors. > > A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact > syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition > information directly between two drives. > > Then use rsync to move the data across. > > You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. > > -- > Brian Litzinger > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >
-- dott. ing. beso
