On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Rainer Mager wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there an easy way to copy the partition information from one disk to
> another disk that is exactly the same size? I'm guessing a dd on the right
> device might do this but the exact command would be appreciated.
> My goal is to not have to manually fdisk multiple disks before syncing them
> into an existing RAID-1 array.
AFAIK there's no tool that can read one partition table and then
re-create it on another device in a clever way. You're right that
dd would do the trick, just copying the partition table from the
one drive to the other. But be careful, if the disks have different
geometries (check the boot output) then identical partition tables
is not what you want... It would be nice with a tool that could
approximate a partition layout, but I haven't heard of any such
tool (anyone?)
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