Re: [PLUG] New Linux Machines and cloning?

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:14:31AM -0500, Art Alexion said:
> [real question, not rhetorical]:
> 
> If you install stuff on, say, hda, then phyiscally install hdb, then
> dd hda -> hdb, would this not copy the boot sector and everything
> else?

dd will copy the mbr along with everything else.  The problem is, dd
will copy blank space as well as used space, so it's a waste of time and
resources.  It's easier to rsync the drives (or start with a mirrored
raid aprtition, etc), and then just dd the mbr itself.  
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