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From: "Ian C.Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 01:19 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] CLONING A LINUX DISK
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 11:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [plug] CLONING A LINUX DISK
> >
> >
> > > cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb
> >
> > or you can use dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb for faster results.
>
> I don't think this will work if the two hard disks are of different
geometry.
yes of course :-> logically speaking when cloning a disk, it must be on the
same geometry (ex. the same number of heads and sectors but different number
of cylinders would be fine) as long as the destination disk is equal or more
than the source disk capacity. otherwise you will mess up its file system
structure.
fooler.
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