Tanx, it's exactly what I had in mind. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Firla > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: how to make a copy of linux harddisk to another harddisk > dito copy > > > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tiberiu Dragulinescu wrote: > > > Hi, > > I wonder if you could redirect the output of dd to have it already tar > > gzip-ed on the other side, defining a file device somehow... > > dd performs a bit-by-bit copy. So the second drive will be an exact > duplicate as the first including. You should be able to pull it out of the > machine, plunk it into a second and boot. > > If you want to redirect to another machine, then you'll want to pipe dd to > netcat. There's an excellent howto for that here: > > http://www.rajeevnet.com/tips_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html > > Alternatively, you can create an iso of the partition you want to copy and > export that however you like: > > ie. > > mkisofs -o filename.iso -J /partion/path > > Ian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list >
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