CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxcopyclonedd
figr
figr

Reputation: 13

Hard drive clone using dd

I have two hard drives:

sda ST3500...blabla (doesn't matter) and sdb WD...blabla. I want to clone sda to sdb using dd.

I ran:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror,sync.

The problem is that dd also clones the label of sda (ST3500...) onto sdb. While booting SUSE from sdb it searches for WD... and fails to boot. Is there a way to clone a whole drive with dd and maintaining the target drive label/model information?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8800

Answers (2)

anatak
anatak

Reputation: 440

you can change the label manually after cloning I started a thread here for a debian system but I am sure it will also apply for SUSE

debian forum link

Upvotes: 0

Dark Falcon
Dark Falcon

Reputation: 44181

The label is in the filesystem, not in the hard drive. It can be modified by filesystem tools such as tune2fs -L for ext2/3/4 filesystems. Simply modify the label after cloning.

Upvotes: 1

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