At some point in the near future, I intend to get a new hard drive, and intend to use dd to copy some partitions across. However, I've never actually used it before, so a few questions:
1) The new drive is SATA (old is PATA). I assume that doesn't make any difference?
2) The new partition is liable to be of a different size. Again, does that make any difference? (That's assuming I would have to make the new partition beforehand...?)
3) What command would I actually use? So far as I understand, dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/sda1 (or something very similar) is what I want to use.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
Mike.


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