[ltp] Re: Cloning a hard disk?

[Jaime Iniesta]

Thanks everybody for the help. Hey AlBundy! I am also on Madrid!!!
Hope you are too on the Linux Madrid mailing list.

I am right now on Knoppix making some tests with my PC, its hard drive
and the external USB one. Lets see if I can get it to work with dd.

Jaime!

On 8/18/05, Javier (a.k.a AlBundy) <buzonazo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Jaime Iniesta <capitanplaneta@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
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> >  I don't want to make partitions on the hard disk, because I have anoth=
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> 40
> > Gb Samsung hard disk. I'm thinking about installing Linux on that Samsu=
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> > hard drive, and leave the IBM hard drive intact, with Windows, so I can
> swap
> > disks whenever I need to use Windows.
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> Hola Jaime:
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> 1) To make many connections in hard disk connector is NOT a good idea.
> All connectors have a finite lifetime, and if you damage internal
> connector, it can need a very very expensive repair.
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> If you really want 2 hard drives, you should get an second hard disk
> drive adapter, that fits in Ultrabay bay.
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> 2) Knoppix CD has both "dd" and "partimage".
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> 3) If you finally choose the "dd" option, you should add a bigger
> "bs=3D" parameter, to get a faster backup, like this:
>     dd if=3D/dev/hda bs=3D10M
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> The default block size is 512bytes. If your hard disk is 40GB, you
> would need, approx:
>      40 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 / 512 =3D 83-millions read/write operations
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> with a block size of 10M:
>      (40 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) / (10 x 1024 x 1024)=3D 4096 read/write
> operations
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> AlBundy
> Madrid (Espa=F1a)
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