[NTLUG:Discuss] How to move data from one drive to another

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:46 -0500, John Thomas wrote:
> My naive thought is to install the 72 gig drive as the second drive, use 
> dd to image the existing disk onto it, and then swap the drives.  Is the 
> possible, or, if so, the best way to  go?

As long as the logical geometry is the _exact_same_ (e.g., 255 heads, 63
sectors), you can typically do it.

Of course, is there any reason why you can't use both drives and just
create new filesystems as necessary?


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