One potential problem with dd, is that there is no integrety checking. I don't know if there is with partimage either, but with multiple gig drives, you may run into circumstances where that would be a good thing to have. Luke On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Janina Sajka wrote: > I'm still a fan of dd for such tasks. > > You mention speed, but I wonder why that should be an issue. Even if dd > is slow, are you actually doing so many disks over so many days, weeks, > and months that it really matters? Or, maybe you're worried about tyeing > up your only workstation? In wich case I'd just do it overnight. > > Janina > > Alex Snow writes: > > Hi, > > Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I > > installed. THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed. > > What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied > > to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there > > any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain > > to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing > > the MBR from the original drive). > > Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a > > console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was > > unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I > > could recompile) > > Any advice would be greatly apreciated. > > > > -- > > lp1 on fire > > -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
