JLC> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:31:10 -0600
JLC> From: Joseph L. Casale

JLC> I wanted to say that too, but that complicates things drastically
JLC> if the drives are not the same,

Google:

gparted-livecd
systemrescuecd-x86


JLC> its also *very* slow as dupes the drive byte-by-byte.

Totally false.  I've moved 20 MB/sec over USB 2.0, and far better with
internal drives.

# for 128 kB blocks:
dd if=/dev/WHATEVER_X of=/dev/WHATEVER_Y bs=131072


JLC> If you need the flexibility to restore to different drives, you
JLC> could use ghost/acronis etc.

See above ISO images. :-)

(FWIW, when I hear "clone", I think "identical".)


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