On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Peter Beardsley wrote:

> Hi,
>          I'm wondering if it's possible if you have two identical physical 
> hard drives to copy one onto the other such that you could boot off the 
> copy?  Will dd do that?  It's unclear to me what happens when you're 
> dealing with multiple partitions, and I don't have a machine with 2 drives 
> in it to play with right now.

dd will do this just fine, just keep in mind the target needs to be as big 
as (or bigger ) than the source. As we're copying everything, regardless 
of if there's actually data or not.

Oh, one other thing...boot off a third drive. you don't want open files on 
the drive you're copying from!

--rdp

-- 
Rich Payne
http://talisman.mv.com


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