Exact Hard Drive Copy
 

Does anyone know what the command format would be to make an exact copy of my Linux hard drive to another (larger) hard drive?

This can be done using the Hard-Disk-Upgrade Mini Howto. You can find it at:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-...ade/index.html

I have used it and it works very well.

Murdock

Thank you very much.

Paul:D

Is it not possible for one to achieve these effects (similar to Norton Ghost i.e.) with "dd"?

yeah that seems the easiest, as will just dump one disk's contents to another - partitions, boot sector, etc. to dump master to slave just:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

i think...:)