Howdy,
If you are cloning to an identical disk, then by far the easiest way is
to boot into single user mode and then (assuming the original is hda and
the copy is hdb):
# cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb
And yes this will really work! So try it before posting flames! And it
will copy Linux, Windoze, and boot partitions, and everything.
It will also work with disks that are not identical, as long as the
second disk is larger than the first. But any additional disk space will
be temporarily lost (similar to what happens with dd), although it could
be recovered with something like partition magic.
As for speed, this will definitely be slow. But if it is really slow for
you, did you try enabling 32 bit disk IO and DMA? Take a look at:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html
This dramatically and reliably increased my disk IO speed, but I have
heard that it causes intermittent crashes on some systems.
> Hi all,
>
> I have a RH box with an ide drive on /dev/hda
>
> I'd like to clone this drive...
>
> Question:
>
> Can I plug in another IDE drive as say /dev/hdb and run the following
> command to do the trick?
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
>
> If not, what's the best way? Assume the person doing this is an end user
> in another country (really is)... :)
>
> thanks,
>
> Ahbaid.
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