Duplicating a working Fedora Drive

Bevan C. Bennett bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Fri Jan 9 18:27:25 UTC 2004


M.Hockings wrote:
> Is there a tool in (or available to) Fedora that can be used to image 
> the complete Fedora drive onto another drive of  equivalent size?
> 
> I know that in Windows there are some tools by Power Quest (I think 
> that's the company).

Behold the wonder of dd.
# dd if=/dev/hd1a of=/dev/hd2a bs=1024
would make a byte-by-byte copy of hd1a on hd2a.
Bad things can happen if hd1a and hd2a aren't the same size.





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