Re: Help Sought
From: Chris Cole (ithinkiam_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/11/05
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:39:38 +0000
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:26:45 -0500, Dr. Cajones wrote:
> I successfully cloned a borrowed drive to two of my HDD's with dd
> if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb using Knoppix. Contrary what I was told by
> someone better versed in Linux/Knoppix than I, when cloning from the
> source 9.1GB drive to the 36GB drive, I ended up with a "9.1GB" drive on
> the 36GB, instead of it writing to the whole drive. Is there a way to
> stretch it out to the full size? or a switch for the above command to
> accomplish this?
> TIA.
This is a well-known limitation/issue with dd. Try using tar or cpio
instead.
Chris.
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