Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for > drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working > drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and > swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in > another Pundit-R. > > 1) Can dd be used to copy partitions? (It seems so - just checking) > > 2) If yes above, then do I need to make identical sized partitions on > the target drive before copying, or does dd create the partition? (I > hope it doesn't actually) > > After the clone I'll rename the machine and give it a different IP > address but I assume that everything else is 100% identical. The extra > drive space will be used for some other purpose and does not have to > be part of root. > > Thanks, > Mark >
The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
