[nmglug] cloning HD

[Eric Krieger]

Yes, Nick's is the better command as it will not stop the dd process
of cloning the old hard drive if read errors are encountered.


- Eric




On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have a 2.5" USB enclosure. I'll boot from a live cd and then I have
> run this (for IDE drive):
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=32768
>
> I'd change the "h" to "s". Is Nick's the better command?
>
> Muchas gracias all....
>
> On 01/03/2011 02:20 PM, Nick Frost wrote:
>
> 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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