Drive B straight copy..?

[Adlopa]

I'm sure this info is buried in here somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can find it... Anyway, my Tivo B drive is failing and while I RMA it, I need to drop another drive in its place.

I want to copy the entire 120GB B drive to a 160GB drive for temporary use. Am I correct in thinking that the command is:

dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda conv=noerror,sync

(old drive is Primary Slave, new one is Primary Master on IDE1)

I don't care about losing the extra GB, since I'll be copying the disk back to a 120GB drive once it's been swapped. Ideas, anyone?

[Rob Nespor Bellis]

That looks OK, but I would put the drives on different IDE channels as this should make the copy faster.

Rgds,

R.

[Adlopa]

Thanks Rob, but no use -- it throws up an "unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference..." error. I'm about to try dd_rescue from RIP instead, unless there's a better option..?