From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (mail01.tacticuscommunications.net [74.2.138.133]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9425F10B39 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E32108C6 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:55:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail01.tacticuscommunications.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail01.tacticuscommunications.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kZo59vxKgXAo for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:55:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.10.20] (unknown [10.0.10.20]) by mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E3F73108C4 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:55:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:14:54 -0400 (EDT) From: luke To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: cloning hard disks In-Reply-To: <20080924154710.GA27667@sonata.rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <20080923202727.GA14857@gmx.net> <20080924154710.GA27667@sonata.rednote.net> Organization: Tacticus Communications, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:14:23 -0000 One potential problem with dd, is that there is no integrety checking. I don't know if there is with partimage either, but with multiple gig drives, you may run into circumstances where that would be a good thing to have. Luke On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Janina Sajka wrote: > I'm still a fan of dd for such tasks. > > You mention speed, but I wonder why that should be an issue. Even if dd > is slow, are you actually doing so many disks over so many days, weeks, > and months that it really matters? Or, maybe you're worried about tyeing > up your only workstation? In wich case I'd just do it overnight. > > Janina > > Alex Snow writes: > > Hi, > > Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I > > installed. THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed. > > What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied > > to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there > > any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain > > to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing > > the MBR from the original drive). > > Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a > > console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was > > unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I > > could recompile) > > Any advice would be greatly apreciated. > > > > -- > > lp1 on fire > > -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >