how to clone a Linux hard disk?
From: Larry Gagnon (lagagnon_at_fakeuniserve.com)
Date: 12/29/03
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:34:35 -0800
I volunteer for a small charity that tests, refurbishes and prepares donated
older (4-6 year old) computers to donate to the needy, homebound elderly,
disabled. We presently clone all our Windows 95 hard disks from a master
hard disk so that we have a consistent set of software on each computer. We
use Western Digital's EZ-BIOS for this process as it is painless and takes
about 3 minutes to clone 450MB of FAT32 filesystem data from the MBR on...
We are considering loading some of the newer computers with Linux for those
wishing to give it a try and to circumvent licensing costs and problems
with newer versions of Windows (we presently have a charity license
arrangement for Win95 only).
I am a newbie to the Linux world (2 months). From my reading "dd" may work
for this task as the next batch of computers we will work on all have the
same model and size of hard disks. However, I understand 'dd' will not work
if either disk is mounted?
Ideally what I would like is easy to use software that clones one HD at a
time from a master, mounted HD using the MASTER-SLAVE EIDE cable
arrangement (including MBR, lilo, etc.) without:
1) having to partition and format each new HD
2) unmounting the master HD
3) a long rigamaroule of CLI commands (except for perhaps an easy bash
script)....
I have looked at "mondo" as a solution, but have not yet tried it. Does
anyone have a good, easy suggestion to help us with our task? Will mondo do
this job?
Larry Gagnon
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