8 Sep
2000
8 Sep
'00
16:25
Michael Smith wrote:
I have always been curious as to whether dd would work
ie
Unmount the drive
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/backupofhardrive
and then to restore on new drive
dd if=/backupofhardrive of=/dev/hda1
Aint had the guts tho :)
I tried it and it worked. However if the drives are not the exact same size, there will be a problem. I used dd to transfer a 660meg system from a 1 gig harddrive to an empty 20 gig drive. It looked as though it worked perfectly, until I mounted the 20gig and did a df, it said it was 70% used!!!!!!!!! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq