HD cloning

[Rich Grenyer]

>Has anyone had any experience with cloning hard drives for cluster 
>installations? Our cluster needs fully functional disk-based nodes 
>unfortunately, and I don't feel like running through the RedHat 
>installation procedure that many times - any suggestions, or am I 
>just being lazy?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rich


Oops - preemptive post. Apparently (!) dd will cover it when booted 
off a floppy:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=[whatever the disk i/o cache is]

as long as the hd devices are identical.

In a last-ditch attempt to make the whole posting episode remotely 
worthwhile....: if they weren't identical, what would people 
recommend?

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Rich Grenyer

Mammalian Evolution and Conservation
Biology Department
Imperial College at Silwood Park
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