From Honsinger@whs.wsd.wednet.edu Mon Dec 11 18:47:23 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id SAA107190 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:47:22 -0800 Received: from whs.wsd.wednet.edu (whs.wsd.wednet.edu [168.99.104.151]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id SAA05423 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:47:20 -0800 Received: from mandrake.internet.wsd.wednet.edu (168.99.104.147) by whs.wsd.wednet.edu with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.3.1); Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:47:02 -0800 From: Benjamin Honsinger To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Disk Cloning Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:44:32 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121118464200.00688@mandrake.internet.wsd.wednet.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ok, this particular idea didn't work. However, it might be salvageable. I did all the steps that mike suggested. However, upon restarting the computer with the cloned disk plugged in instead of the master disk, I get the error "Missing operating system". Is this salvageable? What should I do now? - Ben On Thu, 07 Dec 2000, you wrote: > Here's my advice: > > - Partition the new drive(s) with partitions as big or bigger than the > partitions on the old disk. Since your new drives are bigger, you can't > rely on cylinder boundaries to make the partions the same. Use 'fdisk'. > - Format the new partitions. Use 'mkfs'. > - Copy the old partitions to the new. Use 'dd'. You shouldn't need to > specify the blocksize, so 'dd if=/dev/bah of=/dev/booh' should work > fine. > > --------------------------- > -=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=- > > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 at 15:30, Benjamin Honsinger wrote: > > |I need to clone a hard drive under Linux (several, actually). All the > |hard drives I plan to clone to are bigger than the original. How would I do > |that? I've found this one suggestion to use dd in the following way; > |#dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024 > |Would that work? And, what do I need to do before that? I would > |appreciate any suggestions. I can't find any howtos on the subject. > |I don't know much of how I should do this (do I need to format the drive first, > |and if so, how), etc. > |Thanks for any help! > | > | - Benjamin > | > |PS The disks I plan on cloning to are _not_ identical to the original drive. > |They are all bigger, so space shouldn't be a problem. > | .