<br>Arie,<br><br>Take a look at partimage, unlike dd it only copies blocks with data saving you a hell of a lot of time if your partitions are not fully utilized, You can find it on the <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/">
SystemRescueCd</a>.<br><br>Otherwise... dd is sloooow :) possibly increase the block size..<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arie Hol</b> <
<a href="mailto:arie99@ozemail.com.au">arie99@ozemail.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I have just upgraded my hard drive from 200Gb to 320 Gb.
<br><br>The 200Gb drive will now become a secondary drive, but I want to migrate my<br>Linux partitions to the new drive.<br><br>I have used a Knoppix 5.0 live CD to boot the system, and I am using the<br>command line to type in the following :
<br><br>dd if=/dev/hdd2 of=/dev/hda2 bs=512<br><br>This command copied / across to the new drive < 1Gb<br><br>dd if=/dev/hdd3 of=/dev/hda3 bs=512<br><br>Is currently copying /boot across to the new drive < 1Gb<br><br>
Things are happening, but very slowly.<br><br>Have I used the correct command ?<br><br>The next partition to be copied across is /usr this is about 8.5 GB<br><br>Can I use different options to make the transfer happen at a faster rate ?
<br><br>TIA<br><br>Regards Arie<br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br> For the concert of life, nobody has a program.<br>------------------------------------------------------------------
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