Ok, so I found the answer. It's does involve partclone via the Clonezilla live distro.
http://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/03_One_image_to_multiple_disks/00-boot-clonezilla-live-cd.doc#00-boot-clonezilla-live-cd.doc There is one catch, you have to clone the usb stick to an img file 1st. It can either be on a HDD or another usb stick. Then you start the program over and do a restore and can choose their 1-2-mdisks option. I just tested on 2 at once, took about 10 minutes to make the img (which I can now reuse) and then 7 minutes to make 2x 4GB drives. Tomorrow I'll be doing 8x 8GB drives at a time and will time that too. Note, my times might be faster than most as the source was a 3G SATA SSD drive. Thanks, Alex On 05/01/2012 02:41 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > That's actually what I was afraid would be the bottleneck. Guess I > better gather several machines together for this. How does the whole > mass network install stuff overcome this? > > Do you think it matters if the source is on the hard drive or on a usb > stick? > > Anecdotally, I have done 2 usb sticks at the same time using Ubuntu > startup disk creator, and it does take longer but not double the time. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 05/01/2012 02:12 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> You are overthinking it. It doesn't matter whether you have one or several >> images on the source disk... multiple processes will compete for access >> unless you have 25 hard drives because the disk heads are shared. >> Fortunately there is caching to alleviate some of this, but you should >> expect some performance hit trying to do 25 at a time. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... >> DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So I've got a bootable usb stuck I want to clone. It works fine to use >>> Clonezilla (partclone) to do one at a time. But I've got to do at least >>> 25. Does anyone know a way that I can do more than 1 at a time. >>> >>> I was thinking of just opening more than one terminal and using the >>> same >>> source image file, but I'm worried it will just take longer as the >>> program competes to read the original image. >>> >>> Note partclone or dd must be used because the source usb drive is a 2 >>> partition setup, with partition 1 being a bootable linux install. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Alex > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
