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

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi,

On 2010/6/26 下午 08:08, Bill Gurley wrote:
> 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"?

The destination disk has to be equal size or larger one than the source 
disk. However, after that, you might have to manually deal with the boot 
manager on the destination disk.

Steven.
>
>
>> 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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