Actually, there's a NetBSD-based Ghost-clone out there.
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

Take a look.  It certainly sounds as if it'll do the job.

Wesley Parish

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:14, you wrote:
> thanks everyone for the suggestions.
>
> I ended up doing a
>
> cp -x -a / /mnt/new_root
>
> The -x stops cp from copying files which are mounted on another file
> system.
>
> The -a is for archiving. Its keeps permissions and dates of the files it
> original files. It also copies recursively.
>
> It worked great. dd was taking way too long and I didn't really need all
> 60 gigs copied over.
>
> Paul William wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is a simple dd:
> > dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdx
> > capable of 'cloning' hdc into hdx? hdc is nearly dead so I will be
> > getting a replacement tomorrow and I don't fell like reinstalling
> > everything.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul

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