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Yes I am a avid user of Partition Magic and Drive Image Pro. Have been
using these programs for years.
They are well worth the investment. They are both fantastic.I have used
them to clone HD and deploy OS's on a large scale.
Peace,
Peleg
At 03:27 PM 3/22/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I want to clone (loosely speaking) the entire HDD of an installed, pruned and
>configured Linux system (master disk).
>
>The installation has separate 'devices' for /boot (1st primary), / (2nd
>primary), /usr (logical), swap (3rd primary), /var (logical), /home (logical)
>filesystems (the partition table has 3 primary partitions and 1 extended
>partition with logical partitions). All filesystems are ext2. The target HDD
>capacity is >= master disk (but the resp. disk geometry may not be the same).
>
>Can this be done using tools available in Linux w/o creating the partitions
>individually and then coping them over? (I have tried dd with 2 540MB HDDs -
>no good because disk geometries were different)
>
>Alternatively, has any one tried PowerQuest's "Disk Magic" (not sure of the
>name). PQ claims it can clone MS OSs and Linux.
>
>TIA
>--
>Arun K.
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