dd is a low level stuff - you will end up with everything exactly the same and it will take ages. you might want to look at a more parttion level tool like partimage with comes with knoppix its like a ghost equivalent. ghost is really what you want - a partition level tool that can keep the current structure and expand the partition. partimage will work fine for fat32 - ntfs support is shaky. hrmm - you are copying from one partition to the next with that dd command so it might work - i just found dd to be really slow for even an 8GB drive.
dave On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:09, Simon Males wrote: > A friend is getting a 120g drive to replace his current 40g (which is > defectivly noisy). Its a windows system so some of you may wish to turn > around now. > > What I wish to do is have both drives in, boot knoppix and basically do > the following (or similar) to copy the disks: > > # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 > (40gig) (120gig) > > Okay problems that I think I might encounter: if the FS is NTFS, I think > there no real stable NTFS writing tools. Also will `dd' create a single > 40gig partition on the new drive? > > Thanks, never used dd before. > > -- > Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No More AOL CDs Australia - www.anticd.org -- Solutions First http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au Ph: 9476 0076 Fax: 9476 0082 Mob: 0413 022 143 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
