[ltp] Re: Cloning a hard disk?

[Jaime Iniesta]

Well, the cloning is in process. What I did is boot up from the
Knoppix CD, then open a shell, become root with su and...

dd if=3D/dev/hda of=3D/dev/uba bs=3D10M

It is taking quite a lot of time, 15 minutes now but I can expect
several hours maybe... This PC has an old and slow USB connector.
Anyway I want to try what happens with that.

AlBundy, thanks for the tip on the HD adapter. I have seen it costs 43
euros on Lenovo, seems like a good idea, this way I could have both
drives always connected, and maybe use the second hard drive as
additional storage on Linux, mounting it from there. Do you know if I
can decide which drive to boot from, on BIOS?

Jaime

On 8/18/05, Jaime Iniesta <capitanplaneta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everybody for the help. Hey AlBundy! I am also on Madrid!!!
> Hope you are too on the Linux Madrid mailing list.
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> 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.
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> Jaime!
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> 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
> another
> > 40
> > > Gb Samsung hard disk. I'm thinking about installing Linux on that
> Samsung
> > > hard drive, and leave the IBM hard drive intact, with Windows, so I c=
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> > 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 operation=
s
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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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> email: capitanplaneta ARROBA gmail PUNTO com
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