On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 09:11 -0600, Stephen Ward wrote: > I'm looking for a convenient way to image a single hard drive and then > deploy it on out to a bunch of other drives with capacity greater than or > equal to that of the original. > > What I've come up with is to use the dd command to rip the raw data off the > drive and save it to a file. I'd like to store the file on a large Windows > share, so I'd probably mount the share with samba and then just tell dd to > save the file there. Then to deploy, I'd just do the reverse. > > Maybe I'd mix in a little gzip/gunzip piping as well. > > Any thoughts? Is there already some tool out there designed for this that > would save me a few steps?
What OS? If it is Linux, there are a number of tools for doing this, that can work with partitions and the file systems in order to expand and fit the disk. > > Thanks, > Stephen > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
