From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Tue 11 Jul 2000 - 11:35:09 IST
> > Do you have another identical disk? If so, do an image backup of
> > the drive before you go any further:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdX bs=8192k
> >
> That would be nice. Does it have to be identical?
> The original is a 17GB drive. I doubt I could get another with the same
> disk geometry but I could get another 17GB or something larger.
I think you'd need the same geometry for the partition table to
make sense on the new drive. OTOH, if you only want to use the
backup disk as an actual backup and not play around with it, then
it should work fine.
> Would this still work? What would happen the 'unused' space say if I
> used an 18 GB drive ?
It just gets left blank. Remember that you probably won't be able
to mount the partitions on this disk. However, you can restore your
original by doing
# dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hda bs=8192k
dd will stop when it runs out of space on hda.
Later,
Kenn
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