[CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

Fri Jul 4 11:36:06 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy?
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> I've seen many posts on this list that recommend Clonezilla for this
> sort of thing. You run off CD and it is said to be faster than DD
> because it is hardware aware (forgive the alliteration) and so only
> copies actual data.
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Now this sounds of real interest.  Off to google Clonezilla.  Thanks.

> I've not had occassion to use it though.
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>> I would want to copy the paritition table and my 3 partitions (/boot, 
>> swap, LVM (/ and /home ext3 partitions in the LVM)) and all their contents.
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>> Thing is I only have one USB drive enclosure so I would be running from 
>> the drive I want to copy from.
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>> I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs.
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> HTH
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