My experience with dd is rather limited at this time I've read the man pages on dd, as well as doing some googling, but a few questions still remain if someone can help. I have a server that I need to replace the OS drive in. My thoughts were to do the following to replace it: -Connect replacement drive to system. -Boot to a live cd such as Knoppix -Use dd to moves files from old drive to new using syntax similar to: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Seems fairly straightforward. However, the questions I have are: -Will dd copy over the partition information as well, or should I create the partions by hand and then use dd on each partition such as: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 -Do I need to specify any block sizes or error correcting? The cause for replacing the drive is that the root ( / ) partition has marked itself as read-only. Doing fsck's and rebooting is no longer correcting the issue. In doing a dd from one drive to the other, is there a chance that whatever is marking the partition read-only will be brought over as well? Anything else that I seem to be overlooking? Thanks. -- -Shawn -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list