Duplicating a Fedora PC

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Just a guess here, but I would think that it might mess up the partitioning on the larger drive.  I.e., you would have a 30GB space that matched the drive you copied, with an additional unpartitioned 50GB left over.

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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:24 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Duplicating a Fedora PC



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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Andy Green
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:27 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Duplicating a Fedora PC
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> On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:57, Don Levey wrote:
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> > > More experienced heads may have a better way, but I would
> be using dd.
> 
> > dd may be a good solution.  The man page is not too helpful
> for me; is
> > there a write-up toward which someone can point me?
> 
> dd is really handy to have in your toolkit.  It is basically
> a byterange 
> version of cp.
> 
> The concept is if you have two HDDs installed, say as
> /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, 
> then you can open /dev/hda and copy what you find in that 'file' over 
> to /dev/hdb.  This makes a perfect duplicate because what is 
> 'in' /dev/hda is every sector on that hard drive.

What if the source hard-drive is smaller than the newer one? Can it still image everything and leave the free space as free??

eg : 30Gb->80Gb?


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