On Wednesday 13 Oct 2004 15:34, Andrey Andreev wrote: > Colin J Thomson wrote: Snipped > > I have followed the threads on "ghosting" a drive but I dont feel very > > comfortable just yet trying it, the plan of action is ghost my working > > fC2 system (hda) to the new SATA drive (sda) and Boot from the SATA > > drive. > > > > The plan of action is to boot up from the FC2 CD in rescue mode and use > > DD, and issue this command: > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of/dev/hde > > That would copy everything, including the MBR, labels, the partition > tables and stuff from hda to hde. If that's what you want, OK. If you'd > rather copy only a partition, you'd partition your hde in advance with > fdisk, parted, etc., and then dd just the partition you want to copy > into the partition you want it to land to. Like: > > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hde1 > > Now, if someone has some knowledge on how buffersize affects the copy, > please help here. I've always used a Big Buffer (see the bs option of > dd), and never checked if it makes a difference. Ok, this is getting interesting, I need to checkup on "bs" . One thing I should of mentioned is that the Drives are different sizes, hda = 40gig and the SATA = 80gig, I seem to remember this maybe a problem, in that the "free space" needs to be free'd up after using dd, > Spinrite is a commercial product, that can sometimes fix physically bad > sectors on a bad drive. It is an extremely cool product, in my oppinion, > but it's not what you need. Ah, ok thats handy to know, thanks for the advice, Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 KDE-Redhat-3.3.1-0.2.2.kde Registered Linux user number 342953
