unfortunately the 'identical' drives i bought are not so identical. The 2 new drives are about 300k smaller in size then the original drive. ;( otherwise i would have just used the raid card to mirror the drives and never would of needed to ask how to copy a drive. ian ----- Original Message ----- From: Raghuraj, Ajay To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:13:37 +0530 Subject: RE: any way to copy a hd to another drive? dd would work fine if the destination drive is equal to or greater than in size. It worked fine for me. Ajay Raghuraj -----Original Message----- From: Tom Wilson [mailto:wtw@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:10 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: any way to copy a hd to another drive? On Monday 15 December 2003 07:03 pm, Ian L's voice rose above the ones in my head and stated: > Is there any utility out there to do an exact copy from one drive to > another? the source is about 200k bigger in size then the destination > drive, with plenty of free space on it. > > They are both 'identical' drives, wd1200jb but apparently the newer > one is slightly different, as it shows up as about 200k smaller. I > need a way to copy the source drive onto the smaller one so that i > can set up a raid mirror. i have another wd drive thats the same size > as the smaller of the two. > > Ian Wouldn't 'dd' work for this? dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb -- Tom Wilson Reg. Linux user# 199331 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
