[lug] dd an NTFS drive

[Peter Hutnick]

Nick Golder said:
> Can anyone tell me if there are any immediate flags (other than the
>         obvious WTF) that are drawn by dd (in RAW) one ide disk to
> another using         and intermediate facility (say GNU/Linux) that has
> a partition type of           NTFS.
>
>
> 										Say:
>
> dd if=/dev/<masterdrive> of=/dev/<slavedrive>

This would be dependent on "everybody" (whatever OS set the drive up, dd,
and whatever OS you hope to read the disk with) agreeing on what the
sequence of blocks is on the disks.

It would also depend on the underlying FS not doing anything unexpected,
like having "magic" blocks that have to be in a certain place, etc.

It certainly won't do anything bad to the source disk, so just give it a
shot!

-Peter