Backing up with dd, and creating a file system on a new drive.

[Justin Gruenberg]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Can I use gparted to create an ntfs volume of the drive first, then use
> dd to image the small one, or can I run dd on the unformatted drive
> first to create the backup partitions?


You REALLY don't want to be using dd for this task.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive

Take a look at that guide, it should walk you through setting up the
new hard drive.  As for backing up your old one--do you just want the
data off it?  Once you have the new hard drive setup, you should just
be able to copy the files over as you like.  If you're looking to use
both drives, and automagically back up the old drive as it changes,
thats a different question entirely.