Disk images

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 4/13/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>
> rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> > I dd the MBR onto the new drive first (with the bootloader).
> > Then use fdisk to create the partition (only modifies the partition
> > tables).
> > Then mkfs.ext2 the new partition.
> > Tar up the partition I want to copy.
> > Untar it onto the new partition.
> > Boot.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that. Kind of makes you wonder why you need partimage
> when tar will do the job.


Personal preference?  :)

But I just used the above today to make 2 duplicate drives at work. My
problem was that the destination drives were half the size of the source.



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Russ
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