On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:48:55AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 10:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> >We have a limited, small, number of IEEE 802.3 connected hardware
> >platform identical workstations to clone -- no 802.11 nor any
> >shared (remote, distributed) disk storage (at this time).  My plan
> >was to get one fully operational and configured, and then clone
> >the hard drive image onto the remaining machines one hard drive at
> >a time.
> >
> >...
> 
> There are two issues with the procedure you posted:
> 1.) Cloning a r/w/ mounted filesystem with dd isn't a good idea, ...

One more minor detail I forgot. Full install of SL is just a few GB,
if you clone by rsync, takes a few minutes to copy. With "dd",
it will take hours to clone a 3TB/4TB disk.

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