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The Saturday 2007-04-28 at 23:03 -0400, Bob S wrote:
> > of course they are, many, beginning by dd...
>
> Are you telling me that dd will take a blank hard drive, format it and
> duplicate the partions ?
Yes.
> Like Mondo rescue would?
No.
dd is dumb: if you take the image of a 100 GB disk and dd it to a new 200
GB disk, you loose 100 GB.
> I am thinking when the drive is returned (they will have formatted it) That I
> will have to format it again to ext3, and build my partitions exactly as they
> were, and I am not sure how I can duplicate it exactly.
Does it matter?
Does it matter if a partition is a bit bigger or smaller, even if it is a
diferent type? Linux doesn't care, it will work anyway. You can use the
chance to change your partition types/sizes.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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