Copy One Drive to Another Using the dd Command in Linux - Ubuntu

A tutorial on copying drive to drive and drive to image file using the dd and df commands in Ubuntu Linux. Also covers Disk Utility and other tools as well.

[artkautz]

Nice explanation of how to do it. A little background, but just the basics. This is exactly what I was looking for, NOT every freakin' option for the dd command.

Thanks!

[bradleystone]

If you put on status=progress then it will show you the progress. So your command would be
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc status=progress

[GoonX]

HOW DO I COPY THE WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM WITH ALL THE APPLICATIONS TO ANOTHER DRIVE

[motoryzen]

=== 5:50 For those who just wanted to get to the meat and potatoes of this video..you're welcome -==

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Also 7:42 How long did that take to copy that 501MB's from thumb drive to thumb drive? I did thumbs up this video ftr because you did a great job and were through.

[gregorypowell]

You need to add block size, bs=4096 for example and conv=sync, noerror to keep going if block errors are found on the source disk!!

[ingjms]

Nice video, i wanted to create a backup of my old 80GB IDE hard drive to my new one (SATA2 500GB). I was wondering if I should create a partition with the same size on my new HD to be able to restore the backup. Also, what kind of file should i use to fit an image of several GBs?

[enufots]

Can I clone using dd from an internal Windows c: (has other partitions) to an external USB connect hard drive? If I swap the drives, will the new one be bootable?

[angryapple]

what is the difference between dd and drag and drop?

[zumpitu]

Hi.. if you add on the end of the line " status=progress" you will be able to see the progress ib real time of the copy, so you can know what is going on and the time left

[joshuaserry]

Did you ever make that second video. I'm interested to know if the image IMG file copied to another drive ends up exactly as copying from one drive to the next?

[seyiyinka]

, pls let some show me how to clone my HDD to HDD in Ubuntu OS 10.4. in DOS command . Thanks.

[dablet]

in VB, i dont even see my usb drives. how did you do it?

[xucaen]

I have a 500gb HDD with windows/linux dual boot that is failing and I want to take an image of it and move it to a 500gb SSD. I'm thinking if I install the SSD drive and boot with a linux CD, I could use the dd command to move the drive over. What do you think?

[BillzB]

hi dan i want to say thanks for quick simple videos. Briefly i want to copy a recovery partion to another hard drive, is that possible with this dd command. my goal is to boot from the copied partion in the new hard drive.

[johnstarks]

The last time i did this, I was going from a 3 tb HDD to a 6. it copied the 3tb but wouldn't let me access it. and left the other 3gb unformulated ?

[ДмитроВасильків-йв]

Great, simple video, even for beginners, thx u

[america]

ls -Ralh /dev/disk ...alot of info on partitions
sudo fdisk -l ...partitions
sudo mount -l ...mounted partitions
sudo df -ah && sudo du -ah ...or sudo du -sh ...Disk Free and Directory usage
sudo lshw ...Hardware info
All very helpful commands to help you with this

I haven't tried this yet but lets say my two flash drives are sdf and sdg...isn't DD pretty much the copy command without the converting part? Like: sudo cp -rv /dev/sdf /dev/sdg ?

[raedov]

thank you, what if i copy my ssd that i installed ubuntu on it to my externel hdd, is this will copy the whole system ? if yes then how can i restore it

[Alix-GP]

will this erase any data already on the drive im copying to?

[bharatparmar]

I have 1 tb hdd but data I have is max 200 gb so can I clone it to 500 gb ssd?