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* [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives
@ 2014-09-12 21:53 99% Joseph
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From: Joseph @ 2014-09-12 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb
I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can swap the drives and boot.

Do I boot from USB and run:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000f2548

Device    Boot     Start        End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1 *           63      80324     40131  83 Linux
/dev/sda2          80325   16868249   8393962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3       16868250  121740569  52436160  83 Linux
/dev/sda4      121740570 1250258624 564259027+ 83 Linux

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 596.2 GiB, 640133946880 bytes, 1250261615 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


-- 
Joseph


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