dd cloning disks

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:34:24 +0000
"Bill Holt" <william_holt at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone, I am cloning a multiboot disk to another, the size is
> 10gigs, I've been looking arround (googling) but I can't seem to find
> any documentation on how long this will take. 500mgh,128ram. I have to
> leave work and I would like to know I left with a copy of my work.

I think much of this has been answered, but if you are cloning a live
filesystem you could have some issues. 

I always prefer to shutdown to single user mode or boot into a rescue
system before doing the copy. 
Additionally, although dd will do an image copy, when copying a Windows
partition, you should probably sys the new Windows partition to insure
you can boot it. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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