Re: cloning bootable hard drive

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 10:17 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: 
> R Hofland <[hidden email]> writes: 
> 
> > I'm not having a lot of luck doing quick clones of my installs from 
> > one bootable hard drive to create another bootable drive. I haven't 
> > tried all my options yet but I thought it wise to ask the community 
> > for advice. 
> > 
> > Again, it is Suse 10.3 using the Grub boot loader which resides in 
> > the root partition, but I'd like to be able to do this with any 
> > flavor of Linux and booter. A bootable CD with appropriate software 
> > to quickly create a bootable drive with swap, /, etc. and then copy 
> > all of the files from the original drive is best. I have Acronis but 
> > it has not worked so well for my Suse installs. 
> 
> How are you copying the drive?  I would do: 
> 
>  dd if=/dev/<olddrive> of=/dev/<newdrive> bs=1m