[ltp] Cloning a hard disk?

[Richard Neill]

Paul Kaplan wrote:

>>So I'm looking for a Windows software that will let me clone the IBM hard
>>disk, entirely, with all its partitions and data, onto the Samsung hard
>>disk. 

Boot the laptop with knoppix. Then, something like:


dd if=/dev/hda1 | ssh root@des-machine -e "cat /dev/hdX1"


This assumes you have the samsung disk mounted in another machine.

Notes:

1)check my syntax - I am not certain it's correct

2)Remember to test the new image!

3)Think carefully about partitions. If you copy them over partition at a 
time, you'll need to partition the new disk first. If you copy over the 
entire disk (dev/hda rather than dev/hda1), then what happens if the two 
disks are not exactly the same size?

Richard