On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:36 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:11 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > > > > > That depends on whether the drives are exactly the same or not. if > > > they are the same > > > > > > dd if=/dev/driveyouwanttocopyfrom of=/dev/driveyouwanttocoppyto > > > > The same in what way? How they're partioned? I'm gonna use the same > > partition setup as the original disk. > > The same size. dd does a byte-by-byte copy, including the MBR and the > partition table. If the target drive is bigger then the extra space will be > lost. If it's smaller then it will end up corrupt.
But if it is exactly the same, then you will get a perfect copy, unfortunately including any filesystem errors that may exist. -- Greg
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