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How to clone an old hard drive to a new one by using Linux Terminal commands ?

observe that the new hard drive is unallocated ( without any partitions )

Unix Linux Linux Desktop Linux Server Linux server administration
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Date Posted: 2014/02/16
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Abdulrahim Mohamad Shoueib Alyafi
by Abdulrahim Mohamad Shoueib Alyafi , Information Technology Manager , Faii Alriyadh Establishment for Contracting

I think in same device

#  cp  /olddevice  /newdevice

if another device

#  scp  /olddevice  /newdevice

I hope use SSH channel to be more secure

 

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bsm alah alrahman alrahim

 

sudo dd if=/dev/X   of=/dev/Y  bs=512  conv=notrunk,noerror

 

where X is source hard disk  and Y is destination 

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