duplicate my hard disk

alaios · 04-10-2005, 04:35 PM

Hi... i need a nice method in linux that helps me to duplicate my hard disk in to another one...
For example i have to hard dirks the /dev/hda and the /dev/hdb
the first contains the files and the data and the second one is empty. How i can clone the /dev/hda /dev/hdb ....?
Attention... I don't want to copy the files i want to clone the disk...

Electro · 04-10-2005, 05:09 PM

You can clone a disk by doing dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 conv=sync but it only works if the drives are the same model and brand. Another program is Partimage. You can also use the dump utilities that is designed for the filesystem that you are using.

win32sux · 04-10-2005, 09:06 PM

also, take a look at partimage: http://www.partimage.org/

EDIT: i just noticed that Electro had already suggested it...

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