Hi,
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 23:16 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> After I upgraded my laptop with an internal HDD of 500 GB, I started using my
> old external 500 GB drive as backup. Though of different dimensions and
> makers, they both have the same number of sectors. So I dd'ed the entire disk
> first, which gave me an exact mirror of the internal disk. I though this
> would
> be faster, because I have lots of small files in some places.
I tried that, but after dd finished, I was left with strange partitions
and id's that I couldn't mount. The two disks are both 160Gb with the
same sector size...
It might be easier to do the fdisk-ing by hand.
thanks,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-- William Pitt, 1783
