[Sussex] Cloning disks

[John Crowhurst]

On Fri, September 21, 2007 14:19, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> I have used "dd" in the past but ran into problems when the disks were
> different sizes. A few blocks different was suffient to make the process
> fail.  Brendan

dd only goes bad if the destination disk is smaller than the source. You
can dd a 4GB over to a 9GB with no problem (except you can't access the
5GB until you run fdisk or some kind of partition resizing program)

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John Crowhurst
John's Computer Support