Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla?

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

Stephen:

One question, for clarification....

On 06/26/2010 02:07 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> partclone.dd -b -s /dev/sda1 -o /dev/sdb1
>
> is only for partition to partition.
> For disk to disk, you can:
>
> partclone.dd -b -s /dev/sda -o /dev/sdb
>


For the second command above to work from one disk to another, doesn't 
the disk geometry have to be identical, or at least "compatible"?


> Steven.
>
> On 2010年06月25日 04:54, Richard Klein wrote:
>> One other question, in your example, is it getting the entire disk or is sda1 partition 1 on sda?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:st...@nc...]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:53 AM
>> To: clo...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla?
>>
>> Hi Rich,
>> Yes, partclone.dd is on Clonezilla live CD.
>> To clone /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1, for example, you can:
>> partclone.dd -b -s /dev/sda1 -o /dev/sdb1
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> On 2010年06月24日 22:27, Richard Klein wrote:
>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> Is partclone.dd on the clonezilla CD?  Do you know what the proper command would be to copy everything (with the status) from SDA to SDB?  Sorry for asking to be spoonfed but I am not 100% clear on the CLI&    I don’t want to mess up my source.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:st...@nc...]
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:25 AM
>>> To: clo...@li...
>>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla?
>>>
>>> Hi Rich,
>>>
>>> On 2010年06月24日 21:36, Richard Klein wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Steve,
>>>>
>>>> I would very much prefer to use clonezilla.  I need a bit by bit copy of the hard drive.  I tried a few times&     clonezilla says it cant recognize the partition which is why I am looking toward DD.
>>>>
>>>> I was planning to use this command for a DD transfer (if you think it will work):
>>>>
>>>> dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdd conv=notrunc&     DDPID=$! ; sleep 1 ; while kill -USR1 $DDPID ; do sleep 5 ; done
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, this will work.
>>> BTW, as I mentioned, you can try partclone.dd. it will give you a better
>>> progress report.
>>>
>>> Steven.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Steven Shiau [mailto:st...@nc...]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:47 AM
>>>> To: clo...@li...
>>>> Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using DD in Shell of Clonezilla?
>>>>
>>>> So why you use dd instead of Clonezilla TUI?
>>>> If you really want to use dd and get some progress message when it's
>>>> running, you can try partclone.dd, it's available in Clonezilla live, too.
>>>> For more info, run:
>>>> partclone.dd --help
>>>>
>>>> Steven.
>>>>
>>>> On 2010/6/24 上午 07:15, Richard Klein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I am trying to clone a drive using the DD portion of the clonezilla CD.
>>>>> I am looking to use this command: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>>>>> What happens is I seem to be getting impatient since there is no
>>>>> progress indicator. I keep doing a control + C&     then it appears to stop
>>>>> with a progress.
>>>>> I was curious, is there an additional command that i could put so it
>>>>> would display some sort of status?
>>>>> The 2TB drive is really time consuming.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Rich
>>>>>
>>>>>
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