[TriLUG] DD question, not related

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Mon May 13 10:24:26 EDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:02, John F Davis wrote:
> Hello Roy,
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> 
>
Note that this only works if the hard drives are exactly alike and
are partitioned exactly alike.   Otherwise, you'll end up with
garbage...

Tanner
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