Cloning a disk -large to small

2007-03-04 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have had to clone a newly setup server. The clones are done, and everything seems to be working fine. I was wondering though, if one had a newly setup disk on a 74 GB SCSI dirve, is there some know turning that can be

Re: Cloning a disk -large to small

2007-03-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote: I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have had to clone a newly setup server. dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On large drives, dd wastes a lot of time copying empty sectors. I was wondering

Re: Cloning a disk -large to small

2007-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 04/03/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote: I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have had to clone a newly setup server. dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On large drives, dd wastes a lot