> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andy Green > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:27 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Duplicating a Fedora PC > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote: > > > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would > be using dd. > > > dd may be a good solution. The man page is not too helpful > for me; is > > there a write-up toward which someone can point me? > > dd is really handy to have in your toolkit. It is basically > a byterange > version of cp. > > The concept is if you have two HDDs installed, say as > /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, > then you can open /dev/hda and copy what you find in that 'file' over > to /dev/hdb. This makes a perfect duplicate because what is > 'in' /dev/hda is every sector on that hard drive. What if the source hard-drive is smaller than the newer one? Can it still image everything and leave the free space as free?? eg : 30Gb->80Gb?
