[ale] duplicating the partition layout?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> 
> I have to duplicate a bunch of disks.  They need identicle partition
> layouts.
> 
> I don't want to dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb since we're only actually
> using 2 of the 18 gigs right now.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

ought to do it. You just need to copy the first 512 bytes.

Cheers,

-- Joe 
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