[Sussex] Simple cloning

[Steven Dobson]

John

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:39 +0000, John Crowhurst wrote:
> 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)

But the size of sdb has to be >= sda

Steve
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