[Bug-ddrescue] Disk 2 Disk (Part Deux)

[Al Grant]

I know it has been partly covered in posts before. But I never felt I had
enough info to copy disk to disk.

I have a spare disk here I thought I would give it a go with. The disk is a
:

Hitachi 100Gb 2.5

My disks are as follows:

address@hidden:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf010487

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       30401   244196001   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeed6ce43

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       12136    97482388+   7  HPFS/NTFS
address@hidden:~$ 

The 250Gb is my main linux drive and the 100Gb is the Hitachi. I have not
yet added another 2.5" drive to image to.

In fact for safetys sake I will image the 100Gb drive in its entirety to my
main linux drive (sda). This does raise my first question though:

1) When going disk to disk can you image both the whole drive and all its
partitions or can you only go disk to disk on a partition by partition
basis?

Off to copy the disk now:

address@hidden:~$ sudo ddrescue -vn /dev/sdb /home/al/rhonda.bin rhonda.log


About to copy 100030 MBytes from /dev/sdb to /home/al/rhonda.bin
    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B
    Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
Hard block size: 512  bytes
Max_retries: 0    
Direct: no    Sparse: no    Split: no    Truncate: no

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued:         0 B,  errsize:       0 B,  errors:       0
Current status
rescued:     2653 MB,  errsize:       0 B,  current rate:   39845 kB/s
   ipos:     2653 MB,   errors:       0,    average rate:   37903 kB/s
   opos:     2653 MB,     time from last successful read:       0 s
Copying non-tried blocks...

Look forward to any replies on what I need to do to write rhonda.bin off to
a new unformatted disk.

TIA

-Al

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