Vdubjunkie Posted July 5, 2003 Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 I've got a question for somebody "in the know." I'd like to use dd to make a perfect copy of the various partitions in my running OS to another disk essentially to migrate from one drive to another and remove the original drive. Do I have to boot to a cd or floppy with a basic linux OS on it to get a perfect copy, or will it copy everything using dd while I am running the OS from the partitions I am copying? I know Windoze wouldn't even begin to work properly if you attempted such an act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 I know this is not what you are asking, but partimage was designed for things such as this. It should be on your disks and you can use the partimage boot disk to do what you need. Here's the post where I asked for help doing this: http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=5...er=asc&start=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted July 6, 2003 Report Share Posted July 6, 2003 I guess you could use DD to back up the os you are running right now. Just don't bother including /proc and /dev since those directory are created at boot time. Let me know if it works! MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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