using dd for cloning
Dan Farrell
dan at spore.ath.cx
Sat Feb 9 21:21:08 UTC 2008
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:38:18 -0500
elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:
> I have just about given up with using various cloning programs in
> ubuntu and have just tried using the ' dd'
> command to copy partition to partition
1) don't do this on a busy partition. I recommend going into runlevel
1, if ubunto supplies such a thing, or else turning off X and ALL your
services.
2) refer to my http://spore.ath.cx/~dan/doc/xpmove.html The document
discusses moving XP, but the same method applies to linux
(after writing the document I've used the method sucessfully
for both, just not cross-bus for windows (won't boot). note
that the disks must have the same cylinder size.
> My UBUNTU is on partition sda2 and I'd like to clone it to sdc1 , a
> ext3 formatted partition on an external hard drive.
>
> I tried running: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=512
hm, looks ok to me. but ymmv. bs defaults to 512, in my recollection.
you'd probably do better to set the default block size of the d
> I couldn't see any action except a constantly blinking mark. I
> waited for a minute or so and there was no change, just a blinking
> mark. I wasn't sure if this indicated that data was being transferred
> or not.
>
did you catch what this was showing you?
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!
$ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid
it sends a USR1 signal to dd to tell dd to output progress.
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