A FC6 suggestion.

[Thomas Cameron]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Most of the ones I swap are SCA (scsi w/hot swap connector).
> But, the other quirk is that I very often clone these
> machines by dd'ing the entire drive, so no matter how
> clever you are about creating unique labels there will
> be duplicates when the raw disk is copied.  What we
> need are some management tools so you have standard
> procedures to clone machines across linux distributions
> instead of every distro re-inventing its own quirky
> workaround for the scsi device naming problem and
> hiding MAC addresses in obscure config files.
>
> Unfortunately no one seems to be interested in that kind
> of cooperation.  If a disto does add something it wants it
> to be unique to their version and a reason to use only
> that version.  However, I'm not interested in being married
> to only one distribution so I stick to dd / tar and the
> things that work everywhere and simply complain about
> the way different unix flavors have always kept their
> differences to the detriment of acceptance
Les -

If you use dd, that means you have two disks in a functioning system.  
After the fact why don't you re-label
 the one you will moving?

Thomas