Automatic Clone of Ubuntu systems

[Daniel Carrera]

Michael R. Head wrote:
>>>I just use dd with a live CD. 
>>
>>Please see my other email with the drawbacks of dd.
> 
> gparted should allow you to grow the partition as necessary after the
> image is written. Of course, there's no way with the dd method to write
> to a drive that's smaller than the original drive.

Or even one that is larger and has a different geometry.

> Of course, all the systems that I'm duping to are identical.

Doesn't dd waste a lot of time copying all the 0 bits at the end?

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