Re: Cloning Hard Disk

On 29.3.2006 6:57, Dan C wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:19:31 +0800, Dan N wrote:

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Is there some way to clone what I've got on this disk onto a
replacement? I don't really want to install everything from scratch.

man dd


Hm, what about 'cp -a'? I think this one is much better. Well, at least
in case, that disk aren't exactly the same, I guess.
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