[lug] dd an NTFS drive

Peter Hutnick peter-lists at hutnick.com
Wed Aug 6 16:51:08 MDT 2003


Peter Hutnick said:
> Nick Golder said:

>> dd if=/dev/<masterdrive> of=/dev/<slavedrive>
>
> This would be dependent on "everybody" agreeing on what the
> sequence of blocks is on the disks.
>
> It certainly won't do anything bad to the source disk, so just give it a
> shot!

Also consider partitioning and formatting with Disk Administrator and then
doing "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1" instead of "dd if=/dev/hda
of=/dev/hdb".  Seems like less to go wrong.

-Peter





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