On Sunday 29 April 2007 05:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: > 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.
OK Carlos, many thanks for that. Didn't realize that dd could do that. Thought it just copied files and directories to be restored to existing partitions. > > > 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. Welllll....You're right. It doesn't really matter if dd (or others) recreate the drive as the original was. I was worried that everything would be just run together in one big partition with no space between/after the copied partitions. So, what you are saying is just restore and everything will be taken care of automagically, but if I want to, I can change partition sizes and restore to the newly created partitions on an individual basis. ????? Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
