Hello Use sfdisk to programattically partition your disk.
>From a script you can partition, mkefs, and untar a image. I do it all the time. JD "Vestal, Roy L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@trilug.org on 05/13/2002 02:27:46 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: [TriLUG] DD question, not related True, but DD will keep the partition scheme for me. -----Original Message----- From: John F Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [TriLUG] DD question, not related Hello And that's why I suggest you use tar. JD "Vestal, Roy L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@trilug.org on 05/13/2002 01:47:20 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: [TriLUG] DD question, not related Welp, that would be a problem. It's the / drive and we're going to DD from 2GB to a 4GB, and then make the 4GB the boot/active drive AND then...ugh...Did I mention it's UFS? -----Original Message----- From: Tanner Lovelace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] DD question, not related On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:02, John F Davis wrote: > Hello Roy, > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > Note that this only works if the hard drives are exactly alike and are partitioned exactly alike. Otherwise, you'll end up with garbage... Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security threat. -- Bruce Sterling _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
