xfs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Disc Cloning, partitioning.

To: Derek Glidden <dglidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Disc Cloning, partitioning.
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10 Jan 2002 17:06:18 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1010703521.982.4.camel@two>
References: <1010703521.982.4.camel@two>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
System Imager or System Congifurator may eventually support this. I've
made patches for SI to enable XFS support. I use it often. Please see
freshmeat for the link.

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:58, Derek Glidden wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 16:23, pac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >  
> > Is there a tool that I can use to grab the partition table from
> > One disc and flash it on a Second disk? I didnt see anything like 
> > that from gpart or partimage. 
> > 
> >  I basically want to be able to automatically clone an entire disk, 
> > with all of the data, but not by using 'dd' or ghost. Hopefully 
> > something that is smart enough to forget all the empty zeros.
> 
> sfdisk and rsync or dump/xfsdump.
> 
> You could probably script it by looking at /etc/fstab or
> /proc/partitions or something, although disks with different geometries
> will catch you.  If they're IDE, you run into situations where a lot of
> systems, even with identical disks, can ID the geometry differently
> depending on what controller they're plugged into and how the BIOS
> settings are configured.
> 
> -- 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval 
> 
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
>     | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec - 
> 
>          http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> http://www.eff.org/                   http://www.anti-dmca.org/
-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
Latin Proverb

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>