Re: Hard Drive Duplication

[Chris Fischer]

Andrew,

Thanks for this info. I'll definitely take a closer look at parted!

Regards,

Chris

12/15/00 6:16:44 PM, Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> 
wrote:

>Chris Fischer wrote:

>> Also, I did read Section 8 of the parted manual regarding
>> disk imaging. After closer inspection I can see how I might
>> adapt it to what I need. My question then is: Can parted
>> copy image info. to an unpartitioned and unformatted disk?
>
>"image info" ?
>
>WRT unformatted/unpartitioned, no probs!
>The mklabel command makes a new partition table.
>
>> Or can parted image over a partitioned disk...for example if
>> I had 16 drives with Windows installed and I wanted to image
>> a Linux installation on those drives, could I do that with
>> parted without having to remove Windows first?
>
>Parted can delete the partition table, and create a clean
>one.  (The mklabel command does this)
>
>Andrew Clausen
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