[MLB-WIRELESS] HD cloning.

Daryl Knight spectre at australiaonline.net.au
Wed Aug 29 17:46:02 EST 2007


And the winner is me! No, for simplicity I'm running with dd, thanks all.


>You can plug in a liarger disk and use
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb  (check what your disk is called)
>The new disk will be bootable and you should be aable to swap them.
>
>
>If there are bad sectors, this can take weeks but a 100 gig disk should
>take a few hours.
>
>You can use
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k
>to speed it up a bunch (assuming you have one meg of free memory)





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