use the "dd" command to clone the disk and "dd" it back to another disk. another wat to clone a filesystem is "e2image" the disk and "dd" it out to another.
to clone to an image. dd if=/dev/hdx of=imagefile bs=512 where hdx is the source disk and bs is the disk block size write the clone image to another disk. dd if=image file of=/dec/hdy where hdy is the destination disk. sanjeev ----- Original Message ----- From: Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 02:25:22 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH]Cloning HDDs in Linux > > --- Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:39:01PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > > > Is there any way to clone an entire Hard Disk with Linux > > installed onto > > > > another HDD? > > > rsync, too. Best of the lot. > > rsync is not the ideal solution if the volume of data is too high and > the destination doesnt have any files to be synchronized against. rsync > has a overhead of trying to index all the files in the source path. > > > > Mithun > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
