Backup Hard Disk.

[KK Jensen]

the syntax is as follows 

dd if= of=

 

so if you hard discs are

 

/dev/sda

and

/dev/sdb

 

and you wanted to copy the contents of sda to sdb then do as follows

 

Code:

dd if=/dev/sda of =/dev/sdb

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I'm trying to do the same. Does dd copy EVERYTHING including partitions etc etc? Would this new drive be bootable (if I were to copy my current undersized, old and slow drive to a newer, bigger one)? I've only seen the dd command used (in other posts and forums) to copy an image to something...this included the partitions.