On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> >> What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in >> the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use >> clonezilla is a live cd . > > dd only works IFF (!) the new drive is exactly the same size as the old > drive. Otherwise dd can be very bad. This is a serious misuse of dd! You can resize the target partition after the dd but it's a lot of extra work.