[PLUG] Question on 'dd' - Saving a system disk II...

[Guillermo Moyna <g.moyna@usip.edu>]

Hi gang,

Well, the drive I saved by swapping electronics started to act upon 
me now. The electronics I used were from a disk that was also failing 
erratically, and now it more the failures are more frequent than 
before...

In any event, I think I can bring it back up again, but I don't have 
a SCSI HDD to put the system partition just yet. It'll be here next 
week. What I planned to do when I got the identical disk was simply:

bash# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc

Where 'sda' is the faulty disk I want to dd into the new disk, 'sdc'. 
Now, 'sda' is an 18 gig drive, and I have two 80 gig drives (IDE, hda 
and hdb) on the same machine with nothing on them. How can I use dd 
to make an image of 'sda' on 'hda' that I could then 'dd' onto the 
new SCSI drive I will get next week?

TIA,

Guillermo
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