08-07-2002
dd is a low-level disk duplication utility, it copies byte-for-byte from input to output drive, so dd will not work. However, if you have more than 1 partition, you can use dd on the partition (i.e. not the entire drive @ once, just partition). This will be somewhat helpful, but then you are stuck with what do do with the last partition. If you have a swap partition that is among those to be mirrored, then you can just fdisk the destination drive, copy all partitions except the swap, and be done with it. Syntax will look like this for IDE:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
dd however is a very finicky system, you should only do it on UNMOUNTED drives! I cannot stress this enough. Other than that, you're stuck with formatting them and copying it manually with the cp -r command.
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave
hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order
the partitions are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi-
cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions
on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS "primary" partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
chown(1), mknod(1), sd(4), mount(8)
COLOPHON
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be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)