[nmglug] cloning HD

[Eric Krieger]

Yea... what Nick said.. :)


- Eric




On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Nick Frost <nickf at frostitute.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 10:18 AM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>
> So do I need to create the partition on the new drive or just format the
> drive to ext4 and then use Nick's dd command?
>
> Neither.  If you "dd" a source drive to the target drive, the target drive
> will be an exact replica (partitions and file systems and all)...it's
> bootable and usable as is after the copy with dd.
>
> The only thing you have to do (I think as Eric pointed out) is, if the
> target drive is larger capacity...use gparted (or something like it) to
> resize the copied partition(s) on the target drive to fill the available
> space on the target drive.
>
> -Nick
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