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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:48:21
Message-Id: 200511111843.25809.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive by maxim wexler
1 On Friday 11 November 2005 16:50, maxim wexler wrote:
2 > Hello everyone,
3 >
4 > Just received a new, unformatted SATA 120G HD with the
5 > intention of moving my entire gentoo OS over to it
6 > from a flaky 120G ATA drive(reiserfs). Hopefully, I
7 > can just boot up from the new drive as if nothing had
8 > changed.
9 >
10 > Can anybody recommend any tool(s) for the job?
11 > Gotchas? Does SATA prefer a certain fs?
12 put it in, dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (note at the hd level, not the partition
13 level)
14 >
15 > -mw
16 >
17 >
18 >
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