[plug] copy old hdd to new hdd

[John Clayton]

You need to recreate the partition table so that dd knows where the 
partitions start at the very least. Best option is to use disk imaging 
software that can handle all the partition types.


>From: Tim White <linuxalien at optusnet.com.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: [plug] copy old hdd to new hdd
>Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:15:36 +0800
>
>My 80Gb barracuda is on the way out. I am looking at getting a replacement 
>of the same size. My drive contains 8 partitions which are NTFS, FAT, ext3, 
>and swap.
>The drive is as follows
>hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
>Is it possible to just copy it over using dd?
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
>or do I need to recreate the partition table on the new table and copy each 
>partition separately?
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=512 count=1
>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
>dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdc2
>dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdc3
>dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hdc5
>dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hdc6
>dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/dev/hdc7
>dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/dev/hdc8
>dd if=/dev/hda9 of=/dev/hdc9
>
>Thanks
>  Tim

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