William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> <snip> >> > > >> Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? >> > > 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. > Now this sounds of real interest. Off to google Clonezilla. Thanks. > I've not had occassion to use it though. > > >> <snip> >> > > >> 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. >> >> Thing is I only have one USB drive enclosure so I would be running from >> the drive I want to copy from. >> >> I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs. >> <snip sig stuff> >> > > HTH >