-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just a guess here, but I would think that it might mess up the partitioning on the larger drive. I.e., you would have a 30GB space that matched the drive you copied, with an additional unpartitioned 50GB left over. - - - -=D@7@k|N&=- - -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:24 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: Duplicating a Fedora PC > -----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? - -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list - ---------------------------------------- My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter 4168 spam mails have been blocked so far. Download free www.spamfighter.com today! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBQIM7WKbnQHwVWKJjEQLuogCg6z5/pj5HiTgZheEXdNr+T/8AYPsAni2c l+fChK/+zwLRNNZ8hCtAvx8E =kEqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
