On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Erich Weiler wrote:
> # lvcreate -L 500G -n clone volgroup00
> # dd if=/dev/volgroup00/original of=/dev/volgroup00/clone
>
> The machine then had a kernel panic (I think). I'm remote so I'm not
> sure, but I'll be going in soon to check on it. Not a critical system
> so no big deal. I'll let everyone one what I see at the console.
Could be very slow. On one of my systems, a blocksize of 300k is optimal.
The default block size is usually 512 bytes.
# dd if=/dev/volgroup00/original of=/dev/volgroup00/clone bs=300k
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