Data transfer from one HD to another

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Sun Mar 26 21:22:59 UTC 2006


On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:27:27 -0500
"Matt Smith" <ratman6 at charter.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>     Is there an EASY method to transfer the partitions from an old hard disk
> to a new one?
 
	If the new partitions are identical in size to the old ones then
use dd otherwise use dump | restore.

	Refer to the man pages for the arguments required.

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