On Thursday 15 May 2008, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक ] wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM, swapan karmakar 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > how can we  create an exact clone of LinuxOS installed on a HDD to
> > another HDD...?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

caveat emptor: ensure hdb >= hda to be on safe.

> There is no better utility than this for cloning as far as I know.

Yup.  Norton Ghost ($) also does a good job of cloning and adjusting 
filesystem (ext2/3) size when disks are of different sizes.

-- 
Arun Khan

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