on 6-10-2008 9:59 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following:
Les Mikesell wrote:

If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions?

you can 'dd' the MBR and then re-add the partitions to the raid for
resyncing with 'mdadm'.

# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
# mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1
# mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2

If you want to really make sure you got everything you could dd the
whole first track with:

# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=63

-Ross

Or sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY
where x is source and y is the target.
This will work across drives that have slight geometry differences.

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