[CS-FSLUG] Linux Drive Cloning

[Jukka Ylönen]

Hi!

I think "dd"-command does that. Google search returned this example (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix))

"Using dd to duplicate one hard disk partition to another hard disk:

dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096 conv=noerror


- Jukka

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:08, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>        I'm wondering if anyone could offer some advice on cloning a disk? I
> want to take a 250 GB ext3 hard disk full of data (and the Linux system and
> boot files, too) and clone its data onto a 500 GB disk. I've done this on
> the Mac in Disk Utility, and if I tell it to put the contents of a certain
> partition onto a larger partition, that works just fine.
>
>        Would the same be true in Linux? Any pointers?
>
>        Typically, I've done a fresh install when moving a Linux install to
> a different drive. I guess I could copy the partitions to the new drive
> while keeping them the exact same size and then resize them afterwards, but
> that sounds less efficient.
>
>        Thoughts?
>
>        Thanks,
>                Tim
>
>
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