Re: [sheflug] hdd cloning

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04-Jul-06 Gary Stimson wrote:
> Alex Hudson wrote:
>>>   dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> 
> I notice you've put /dev/hda rather than /dev/hda1 etc. Does this mean
> the dd command above will copy the entire disk sector for sector,
> including bootable flags on partitions and even the Master Boot Record?
> I.e. so it can be used to make one bootable hard disk as a copy of
> another?

That's precisely what I meant! E.g., one way of getting the
MBR off a hard drive is

  dd if=/dev/hda of=~/myMBR bs=512 count=1

which will read the first 512 bytes off the hard drive itself,
into the file myMBR in you home directory.

Ted.

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