[vox-tech] Cloning a drive?

[Tim Riley]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 12:08, Paul wrote:
> I need to move my desktop from a (full) 10G drive to a (spare) 20G drive.

I would first try dd. After booting from a CD:

# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

This should make the first 10G of /dev/hdb the same as /dev/hda.
So to recover the second 10G on /dev/hdb, run fdisk on /dev/hdb
and create an additional partition.

Disclaimer: I haven't done disk surgery in several years.

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