From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: cloning hard disks
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:48:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924194800.GA4621@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080924191812.GA20653@gmx.net>
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Another problem with using dd here is that it copies the entire
partition, even the unused data blocks. Partimage doesn't do this, it
just images the used partition space, and as far as I know, makes a
note internally in the image file on what the unused space is like, so
it can restore the partition back to how it was, without taking extra
time, and disk space on the drive where the image is being stored,
like dd does.
Greg
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 03:18:12PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> In this situation I have about 10 machines that are getting cloned
> from one master, with DD taking about an hour to do each machine. The
> machines are all spare, so it's not a matter of tying up a
> workstation, but getting things done quickly.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Alex Snow
` Dawes, Stephen
` John covici
` luke
` Alex Snow
` Tony Baechler
` Janina Sajka
` Alex Snow
` Gregory Nowak [this message]
` luke
` Gregory Nowak
` luke
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