Help with dd needed

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On Friday 14 November 2003 11:26 pm, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
> Old Drive:
> 2.5 gigs on one fat partition (that just sounds wrong)
>
> New Drive:
> I will fdisk it blank and then create a 8 gig first partiton which will
> receive all the files to be copied over and then a 32 gig second partition
> to fart around with later.
>
> I am concerned really only with the dding the MBR. I can figure out cp
> again (it has been a few months away fromt he command prompt) on my own.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>

So you want to copy only the MBR?

dd if=3D/dev/hda of=3D/dev/hdb bs=3D512 count=3D1

Will copy the very first block of hda to the very first block of hdb.

This will, of course, wipe out your new partition table that you just creat=
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so I guess I still don't understand. Maybe dd is not the tool you want.

Alan
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