Re: [tlug] Tip of the Day: "ghosting" a machine with nc and dd

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:01:36 +0900, tlug@example.com wrote:
>
>   
> > Note that the command above runs the fdisk program, which lets you type
> > in fdisk commands, so it does not give the partition information
> > immediately. You will get a prompt such as "Command (m for help):" where
> > you can type "p" to print the partition table (like above) and then "q"
> > to exit fdisk.
> >     
>
>   
[...]
> The "-l" (that's a lowercase "L") option does the same as the "p" command in
> the interactive version but just spits the information out and quits
> immediately.

If you want to partion the second disk exactly like the source sfdisk 
makes this slightly easier:


      -d     Dump the partitions of a device in a format useful as  
input  to
             sfdisk. For example,
                 % sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out
                 % sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out

this can of course be combined with a little ssh or nc magic.

kind regards,
-sig

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