On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for > > drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working > > drive in onePundit-R is 8GB and has 3 partitions - boot, root and > > swap. I'd like to copy these partitions to a new 80GB drive for use in > > another Pundit-R. > > > > 1) Can dd be used to copy partitions? (It seems so - just checking) > > > > 2) If yes above, then do I need to make identical sized partitions on > > the target drive before copying, or does dd create the partition? (I > > hope it doesn't actually) > > > > After the clone I'll rename the machine and give it a different IP > > address but I assume that everything else is 100% identical. The extra > > drive space will be used for some other purpose and does not have to > > be part of root. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > The dd program knows nothing about partions but it will work with the > associated device file. I would use fdisk, mke2fs, and rsync. > > Zac
OK, cool. Thanks. I've wanted a reason to learn a bit about rsync anyway. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
