[KLUG Members] Duplicating a HD

[Robert V. Kanaley]

Hey guys,

I would appreciate any feedback on how I plan to duplicate a hard drive some
time today.

I have an older system with a HD that is getting flakey (HD not recognized
at bootup). I want to put a second HD in the system and duplicate the flakey
one to the newer one.

I plan to boot Knoppix, then from the KDE desktop uncheck the ro property of
the newer HD.
I will then open a root shell and do something like a dd if=/dev/hda1
of=/dev/hdc1.

Since this is the first time I have tried something like this I am not
confident about the syntax to duplicate a whole drive. I don't know if there
are any dd options I need to include.

Is it better to wipe the newer HD to get rid of existing data before I do
the dd?


Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com