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Re: disk cloning with dd

by marty-17 :: Rate this Message:

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David wrote:

>    After a quick "cp --help", I see that it, too has a --one-file-system
>    option, so no doubt you could use an identical strategy using "cp" as
>    with "tar".

If drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are identical models, then
"cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" works and insures an exact sector for
sector mirror copy of all the partitions.


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