From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>
Subject: Re: dd maybe?
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:17:22 -0600
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To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>

>>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.
Any multiply of 1024 will do try something like 8192.

Here's a mini-howto that deals with copying Linux files sys between
disk, but it might work with any mounted file systems?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html

i.e. format drive B for NTFS, mount /dev/old_ntfd /mnt/A
mount /dev/new_ntfs under /mnt/B

Follow howto and see what happens.

You might also check on http:/freshmeat.net
for backup solutions.


David