[nmglug] cloning HD

[a]

My computer thinks it lost the external HD.
Inspired by the ratified  world of scientific experimentation I decided
to clone my OS which on a 750MB HD onto a external 250MB HD,uhhuh!!!!
You will please excuse me while I look around for the electronic
whereabouts of the external drive.
Thanks for the "grep sd /var/log/messages".
Anthony



On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 04:21-0700, Eric Krieger wrote:
> Drop to the cli and run...
> grep sd /var/log/messages
> ...this should display disk info for your system.  If you just
> attached the drive it should towards the bottom.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:43 AM, a <a at kaluta.us> wrote:
> > I have an external usb connected hard drive. Will that drive be detected
> > as /dev/sdb and proceed cloning forthwith as : dd if=/dev/sda
> > of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror.
> >
> > anthony
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:31 -0700, BrianO'Keefe 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
> >> > ---------------------------------------
> >> > Nicholas S. Frost
> >> > 7 Avenida Vista Grande #325
> >> > Santa Fe, NM  87508
> >> > nickf at frostitute.com
> >> > ----------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
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