[nflug] quick partition table mirroring

[Brad Bartram]

Why not use dd?

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Darin Perusich <
Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure the subject of this message accurately describes what I'm
> looking but it's kind of close.
>
> I have a Linux server with mirrored drives and one of the drives died. I've
> replaced the dead drive with an identical disk and want to recreate the
> partition layout and rebuild the mirrors, simple tasks. Because the disks
> are identical I'd rather not have to manually create all the partitions, I
> want to suck that info from disk1 and apply it to disk2.
>
> On Solaris I'd use prtvtoc from grab the disks partitions and fmthard to
> apply it to the new drive but haven't been able to locate equivalents on
>  Linux yet. Is anyone aware of how this can be done on Linux?
>
> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corporation
> 395 Youngs Rd.
> Williamsville, NY 14221
> Phone: 716-633-3463
> Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
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