Re: Cloning Hard Disk

Matthäus Banach <accounts@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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.

What I think that Sybren meant to say was: If your running kernel does
not support one of the filesystems you want to copy, it won't work. Tahe
NTFS for example. As you can only read it and cannot fully write to
NTFS, you couldn't clone your filesystem via cp -a, but as dd copies bit
by bit, it would even copy this filesystem to your new hdd.

Matthäus

Thanks! Now I understand.

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