Re: Cloning Hard Disk

Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

chlovechek enlightened us with:
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.

That only works when the filesystem is supported. It can also only
copy files, and not disks.

Sybren

I guess I don't understand the difference ... I use `cp -a` regularly
when cloning/duplicating/backing-up my system. It is (almost) always
between disks/volumes of different sizes so I found this to be the
safest.

`dd` (unless you are really a guru) copies everything even the
partition information and can really mess up between different sized
disks.

If you have some different information please post, I am always
looking for new ways to do this.

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