"dd" is a much better command that "cp" for this. See the following for more info and a good background as to what is going on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_Cloning The sections on "Cloning a partition" and "Cloning an entire hard disk" are the bits you want. Also take a look at the bit about the MBR - useful if you want a bootable drive after the cloning if you didn't take care of it when you created the partitions on the new drive. Andy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org