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deque
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 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: quickly copy partition tables? |
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I am working on doing many gentoo installs to similar machines with identical hard disks thgat I want to RAID together using software RAID. Is there a quick and easy way to copy partition tables from one drive to another so I don't have to go in and manually define them 24 times? thanks!
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kiezpro
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| I haven't used it myself yet, but you may want to take a look at sfdisk - it seems like you can automate partitioning with it quite easily. I haven't installed it explicitly, yet it's on my system, so I guess it's default for any gentoo box. |
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cyrillic
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You could use dd to create an exact copy of the MBR (which includes the partition table) from one disk to another.
| Code: | | # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 |
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