Marlon Yu said: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:51, Joon wrote: >> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:07, Ahmad S. Taneo wrote: >> > mkCDrec can do that.. exact replication of the entire hard drive. >> >> Thanks... but I was hoping I could do my replication straight from >> shell. I checked the rsync manpage, but couldn't see anything regarding >> exact (low level?) hdd copy. Maybe I should I use dd instead? > > dd is what I use here...although i've only used it on 2 identical disks > (same model/make/size). it's as simple as "dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc". > took me 1 hour and a half to clone a 20Gb Maxtor IDE disk. >
you can cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc or if you want to copy only the first partition cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdc1 be careful, this is very powerful -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
