This is double-plus good! Thinking: Hmmm... migrate to new hard drive... 1. Purchase propreitary "ghost" utility, $$$ out of pocket, have to use propreitary OS... 2. Use dd and parted and I'm done... Which to choose... I love Free Software! Alan -------Original Message------- From: Craig White Sent: 01/30/03 09:55 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Re: using dd to backup entire hard drive > > As a follow up, being the impatient person that I am, I just went ahead and did it. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512 and it worked fine (target drive was slave on secondary controller, hence /dev/hdd copied everything but left the extra space on the target drive unpartitioned and obviously parted would have to be used to move and/or resize partitions. Craig