>From the command line, issue the following:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=1024
in the example above, make sure that /dev/hda and /dev/hdc correspond to
the proper drives
Also, I'd recommend installing hdparm (if it's not installed already) and
then issuing the commands
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
to switch on DMA on both drives (this doesn't apply if your drives are
scsi).
You will save yourself *hours*, if not days (depending on disk size) by
switching on dma.
The other caveat here is that your target disk *must* be of the same size
or larger than your source disk.
Ian
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St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system
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http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, omerfarooq wrote:
> hi there
>
> can any one tell me how to make a copy of linux harddisk to another harddisk
> dito copy. like how we are making it in windows enviroment that just plug the
> other hdd and from windows copy and paste all the files to the other hdd.
> even it will copy the system files. how can we do that in LINUX........
>
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