On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 18:53 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 10/20/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It was /dev/sdd1. I did not want to copy the two partitions of /dev/sdd. > > > > Okay, that's the problem. You can't copy a single partition > > (i.e. /dev/sdd1) to a hard drive (i.e. /dev/sda). However, you can > > partition /dev/sda and then dd from /dev/sdd1 to /dev/sda1. > > > > Just be aware that you'll have to run grub-install again to install grub > > onto /dev/sda. > > I want to create two partitions in /dev/sda, both with the same size. > How can I do that? > > Paul > You can either use fdisk or parted (assuming you have to do it all from the command-line). I'd advise you to use parted as it seems to be a bit easier to use. Type in 'h' at the prompt to get help. Also, as Timothy Murphy mentions in another e-mail on this thread, using "cp -a" is probably preferable for your situation. I normally use dd if I'm wanting to copy a complete system from one hard drive to another, but if I'm only copying one filesystem, I would normally create a new filesystem on the new hard drive and then use cp -a from the old filesystem to the new one. Jonathan
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