[nmglug] cloning HD

[Nick Frost]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Eric Krieger wrote:

> How are you cloning the drive?   Are you connecting the new drive to
> the system via some sort of usb or firewire enclosure? Running...
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>
> Will copy all partitions from sda to sdb and just expand sda1 on the
> new drive once it's finished.  Granted it's not the fastest method but
> it works.

The above works well, but I've had slightly better results with;

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror

- Nick
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Nicholas S. Frost
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