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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:18:46PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, John Beck wrote:
> 
> > No need to format, dd will duplicate the disks (or partitions) sector by
> > sector, so formatting and data both will be replicated. It will even
> > clone the mbr to allow booting (if the original drive is bootable).
> >
> > dd is great, but can be slow. If I'm not in a pinch alot of times I'll
> > use Symantec (formerly Norton) Ghost, but dd is free and on my knoppix
> > disks.
> 
> Several websites suggested specifying a larger block size than the 
> default to speed up copying:
> 
> dd if=/dev/had of=/dev/hdb bs=8k   - copies in 8k blocks.
> 
> 
> Can I copy both Windows and BL3 ext2 files/partitions between drives, if 
> the drives are different sizes?  If so, what happens to any additional 
> space on the second drive, is it just left as free space?
> 
> Is there some way to copy the mbr with cp?

The command for copying MBR is:
dd if=/dev/hda of=./hda.mbr bs=512 count=1 (backup hda's MBR to file)
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 (to copy MBR from hda to hdb)

> I am thinking of sneaking BL3 into the giveaway Win98 computers (50MB with 
> browsers), along with our phone number in a start menu for help with it.
> 
> >
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> >> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, sindi keesan wrote:
> >>
> >>> yOn Sun, 19 Nov 2006, John Beck wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'd use dd (disk dump) to clone HD to HD.
> >>>>
> >>>> dd if=/dev/hda  of=/dev/hdb
> >>
> >> I found some answers.
> >>
> >>> Can we also dd if/dev/hda1 of/dev/hdb1?
> >> This won't copy the MBR - do we need the MBR if there is no boot manager?
> >>
> >>> Can we copy between drives or partitions of different sizes with dd, 
> >>> like
> >>> we can with cp -a *?  We have some 340 and some 500MB.
> >>
> >> hdb has to be as large as or larger than hda.
> >> There is no need to mount a device when using dd.  Do I format hdb?
> >>
> >> We will install to 340MB and copy to 340MB and 500MB.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> sindi keesan wrote:
> >>>>> We were unable to copy Win98 between hard drives using DOS and boot 
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> result.  Might be something about the hidden files.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Would cp -a /hd/* .  (after mounting both drives and cd'ing to target)
> >>>>> clone a Win98 hard drive after formatting to FAT32?
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