> Michael wrote:
>
> I have two identical hard drives. One has live OS on it, and the other is
> completely empty. No partitations at all, and no data.
>
> Would the following work;
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64k
>
> To duplicate the entire disk of /dev/hda to the disk /dev/hdb
Yes. :)
> And once it is done.. would the 2nd disk be bootable?
Yes. :)
> and would the first disk be intact?
Yes. :)
- Jeff
(Who might mention now that, yes, you're doing a lowish level copy of the
hard drive, so all the data, partitions, etc, will be exactly the same. dd
is very, very cool.)
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