How to duplicate a disk

Rick Lim ricklim at telus.net
Thu Oct 27 03:38:21 UTC 2005



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Wong Kwok-hon
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:31 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: How to duplicate a disk

On 10/27/05, Thomas Taylor <linxt at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 08:31, Matt Roth wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I need to create a exact copy of a RH9 system. This system has the
> > > following partitions: /root, /swap, and /.
> > >
> > > What I would like was to somehow create a "ghost" of the disk, so I
> > > could disconnect the original IDE Drive, connect the "ghost" and the
> > > system work as normal.
> > >
> > > If I had a LVM how would it be?
> > >
> > > Is there some application or way to replicate the disk, create a
mirror,
> > > ghost, whatever??
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Acronis may suit your needs.
> >
> > http://www.acronis.com/
> >
> > Matthew Roth
> > InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> > Software Engineer and Systems Developer
>
>
> There's also g4u (ghost for unix) which will make exact duplicates.
>

Also can do this with g4l.

Wong Kwok Hon


Mondo works for LVM.






More information about the fedora-list mailing list