RE: any way to copy a hd to another drive?
From: Raghuraj, Ajay (Ajay.Raghuraj_at_blr.hpsglobal.com)
Date: 12/16/03
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:13:37 +0530
dd would work fine if the destination drive is equal to or greater than in
size. It worked fine for me.
Ajay Raghuraj
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wilson [mailto:wtw@fuse.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:10 AM
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Subject: Re: any way to copy a hd to another drive?
On Monday 15 December 2003 07:03 pm, Ian L's voice rose above the ones
in my head and stated:
> Is there any utility out there to do an exact copy from one drive to
> another? the source is about 200k bigger in size then the destination
> drive, with plenty of free space on it.
>
> They are both 'identical' drives, wd1200jb but apparently the newer
> one is slightly different, as it shows up as about 200k smaller. I
> need a way to copy the source drive onto the smaller one so that i
> can set up a raid mirror. i have another wd drive thats the same size
> as the smaller of the two.
>
> Ian
Wouldn't 'dd' work for this? dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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