Quoting Don Raboud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd. It copies > > partitions, not disks. It makes partition images, not disk images. > > This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No > pre-partitioning required in that case. > > I recently backed up an entire disk with three partitions (including one > encrypted) to a new disk (same model) without partitioning. Something along > the lines of > > dd if=/dev/<drive_to_copy> of=/dev/<backup_drive> bs=8M > > Works fine. >
Okay, my bad. I think I'd prefer copying partitions. It gives more flexibility on the new disk's size. Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
