Clone a hard drive?

[Jeremy Teale]

Dave M wrote:
> What is the easiest way to clone a full (all partitions, boot tracks etc.) 
> hard drive?
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If the drives are identical, it is possible to just use dd.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
where sda is the source drive and sdb is the destination.
If the drives are of different sizes, you will probably want to
repartition sdb after the command is done.
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