RE: Installing five identical systems...

["Greg Lindahl" <glindahl hpti com>]

> If dd has already copied the inode table for a given set of filesystem
> blocks, then, before dd completes writing these blocks, they are
> changed, fsck will be unable to identify the copying problem.

This is correct, but if you know that no important files are being written,
you are OK. For example, you might know that no one is changing their
password, therefore /etc/passwd is safe.

-- g