Re: [SLUG] Hard drive dumping

From: Ronan Heffernan (ronan@iotcorp.com)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 17:30:37 EDT


Smitty wrote:
> I want to dump the complete contents of a 20 GB harddrive onto a new 40 GB
> harddrive. Any recommendations how I should do this?
> Smitty

Somebody PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, but I think the following
should work:

dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdb1

(use the appropriate partition designations of course, where 'if' is the
source and 'of' is the destination).

You might have to give a size, but I think the entire filesystem will be
copied if no size is given. To be honest, I am not sure if symbolic
links are preserved or not.



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