[NTLUG:Discuss] Copying Linux partitions

[Ed Coates]

Quoting Brett Grayson <brett at bitwerks.net>:

> Its been years since I've messed with something like Symantec Ghost...
> but does anyone know if it, or any other program can be used to 'image'
> your linux partitions?
>
> I have an identical size drive that I would like to swap with the boot
> drive on my RH8 file server ... any suggestions? I'd rather not have to
> rebuild the thing, I'm just moving in a faster drive.
>
> As usual, any help is appreciated. If you would like, you can argue
> about ghosting etiquette for the next week :) ... I prefer to start from
> the bottom of the sector!

You could always us the old school method by using dd  :)

dd if=/dev/hd<hardrive to copy from> of=/dev/hd<harddrive to copy to>

should work

Ed

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