On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:59 am, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I'm trying to ghost one disk to another.
>
> They are identical physical specs, and I am attempting:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=4096
>
> It transfers about 593 records and then complains that there is
> insufficient space on the device.
>
> WTF?
>
> --
> Howard.
I had a similar problem once with a disk (actually half an entire array) on
Solaris. I ended up partitioning the new drive(s) then using cpio to do the
"ghost". Not exactly elegant, but it worked.
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At least Solaris has a nice "fmthard" which allows you script the whole
mass-partioning of 30-odd drives into a single:
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c${CTLR}t${TARGET}d0s2
which is enclosed in a neat little nested loop to increment $TARGET and $CTLR
as it stepped through the drives :) Slice (partition) #2 in Solaris is the
partition table - very handy :)
</WAR_STORY>
Now try THAT with Redmondware :P
James
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