From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian 'woody', homebrew 2.4.25 kernel Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:34:40 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4110BBC0.90203@buttersideup.com> References: <27897.194.60.85.4.1091613610.squirrel@194.60.85.4> <200408041129.44767.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200408041129.44767.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> To: Mark Watts Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mark Watts wrote: >Talking of partitioning several disks the same, is there an easy way to >automate this? > > Hmm, I gave a way to do this in my last email, but I've realised that I missed out the "count" argument to dd... I said: > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc ; echo w | fdisk /dev/hdc This will work, but will take a while ;o) it should really have been: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc count=1 && echo w | fdisk /dev/hdc Tim.