From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Hunter Subject: Re: dd maybe? Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:51:24 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D060E6C.3010307@thegateway.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020611074109.01a73130@mustang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux Admin If it's NTFS, you should look into Ghost Disk. Jeff Scott Taylor wrote: > At 07:38 AM 11/06/2002, you wrote: > >> Scott -- >> >Hello, >> > >> >I'm just wondering if there is a way to successfully make a mirrored >> copy >> >of a drive, formatted with NTFS, by using a tool like dd, or is there a >> >better (other Linux) tool for this? >> >> If your going to use dd the drvies have to be identical. ie. heads, >> sectors, etc. > > > Oh. Bummer, try and find a 500MB drive today. :( > >> Also be sure to set the block size "bs" flag. > > > That's the question I forgot to ask, "how can I tell what block size to > use? (is there a magic number that will work regardless?)" > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >