On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org> wrote: >> Does dd already do some sort of "verify after copy"? I will likely >> investigate the available COTS partition cloning tools as well. > > Not natively, but it fairly easy to pipe a dd reader through md5sum to a dd writer, then follow up with a dd read + md5sum of the copied partition (taking care to read precisely the same number of sectors). > > The various flavors of ddrescue might have something like this.. didn't check. Sorry it's a bit OT, but for the sake of future googlers thought I'd point to this tool I found: http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Dc3dd _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
