On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 13:02 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote: > Hello Bo, hello community ! > > Bo wrote / schrieb: > > > I've just been lurking so far but > > I would be happy to recieve some help on the topic of how to clone an > > entire disk (with > > partitions and diferent filesystems and all) on a dual boot home systen. > > No servers or anything. > > Unix command "dd" (= device dump) is your friend ! > > Assuming the disk to clone is connected to primary IDE channel as master > (=/dev/hda) and the target disk resides on primary IDE as slave > (=/dev/hdb) the command you need to issue looks like this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=128M > > The option "bs" specifies a buffer of 128MB size. Otherwise "dd" would > copy blocks of 512 byte each ... > > If you need more information: > > man dd > info dd > dd --help
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