Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 at 16:58 GMT, Gerard Ceraso penned: > I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the > old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering > which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each > partition and and just using

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition and a

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old > hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which > was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition > and and just

copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition and and just using cp. ~gerard http://devslash.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to