[Sussex] Simple cloning

[John Crowhurst]

On Mon, November 13, 2006 17:00, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for the simplest way to reliably clone a Fedora Core 5
> system. Small differences in disk size, changes in server hardware, out
> dated proprietary software, etc have all caused me aggravation at
> different times.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

This way you copy everything over (including partition table and all)

It would be the most time consuming especially if you had bad sectors on
the drive.

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John