[H-GEN] Creating disk image

[Robert Stuart]

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John Boggon wrote:
> 

[snip]
> dd does not require the disk to be formatted ?. But it would need to be
> partitioned with the same size as the image ?
> 
> Thanks for the reply,
> 

I should have been a little more explicit with my dd statement.  We do
something like: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc (note there is no partition
specified).  This gives you identical disks in every way (partition
tables, boot sectors etc).  If we are doing a tar dump, we've already
fdisked and formated the drive.

BTW, why is the "Reply To:" set to the chat list?

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