HardDiskCloning

A heavily edited email response by Sergey Plis sent to the UNM csgrad list.

> Is it possible to clone/copy the entire hard disk (A) to another formatted hard disk (B)?

I had two identical disks one of which was partitioned and had linux and windows on it. Here's what I did:

1. Copy the partition table

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out%%%sfdisk /dev/hdc < hda.out

2. For each partition, copy sector by sector

for example

dd -if /dev/hda2 -of /dev/hdc2

The second step can take a very long time.

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Last Edit: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:31:27 -0700
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