On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 13:02 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Hello Bo, hello community !
Bo wrote / schrieb:
I've just been lurking so far but I would be happy to recieve some help on the topic of how to clone an entire disk (with partitions and diferent filesystems and all) on a dual boot home systen. No servers or anything.
Unix command "dd" (= device dump) is your friend !
Assuming the disk to clone is connected to primary IDE channel as master (=/dev/hda) and the target disk resides on primary IDE as slave (=/dev/hdb) the command you need to issue looks like this:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=128M
The option "bs" specifies a buffer of 128MB size. Otherwise "dd" would copy blocks of 512 byte each ...
If you need more information:
man dd info dd dd --help
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