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Latest revision as of 12:46, 4 March 2014
Cloning hard disk drives is a common maintenance task. Several options are available to perform clone options.
The most simple way is to boot Ubuntu from an USB-Drive and use native UNIX commands.
Ubuntu Live
The Ubuntu side has a complete tutorial how to create an Ubuntu Live USB on Windows [1] which is based on the USB installer provided at pendrivelinux.com [2][3] and a basic iso-Ubuntu distribution [4].
Unix dd
Unix dd has the functionality to clone one hard disk to another. To see what hard disk are available use the fdisk utility on linux.
$ sudo fidsk -l
The result will be something like:
| Partition Information fdisk In total there are 3 disk found:
and a total size of 1.073 MB.
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc For a large disk the command may take some time |
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See also
Reference
- ↑ Ubuntu, Create an usb stick on Windows.
- ↑ pendrivelinux.com, Homewebsite
- ↑ pendrivelinux.com, Download universal usb-installer
- ↑ Ubuntu, Download Ubuntu Desktop,