Re: [SLUG] how to XCOPY or image a Linux system to another HD ?

[Voytek Eymont <voytek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to note from Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:40:33 +1000


> Imaging is a bit different, and I didn't explain it above because you 
> mentioned that you had two disks of differing size. If you end up creating a 
> partition on your new disk that is exactly the same size as one on your old 
> disk, you can do this: 
>  
>   dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdc2 bs=8M

Jeff, 
many thanks for the detailed explanation!

what about imaging to a single archive, onto a cd, to allow un-imaging on a
new, unknown size drive, how could I handle that ?



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