Re: [CentOS] transfer data from one hard drive to another

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 18:41, Will McDonald wrote:

Yep. I used do this all the time. If the disks have the same geometry it's dead simple. I used to use it to build and configure a server then duplicate it over another half-dozen or so identical systems.

Just one caveat: make sure to remove the MAC address portion of any ifcfg-ethX in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (the HWADDR parameter, I think, is the right one). Been there, done that, cloning systems like that. Did a cluster of 30 Sun Ultra 30 workstations with Aurora Linux 1.0 a few years back; had to make sure to remove the MAC address from the master prior to cloning.