On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:48:03PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
McElwee, Shane thought:
> Hi,
>> I need to clone a Linux filesystem running VMware and was wondering has
> anyone out there tried this and how they went about it. Are the OS's in
> VMware affected during imaging? What's the best application to use for
> cloning Linux. I've used Ghostsoftware for cloning NT before but never for
> Linux. Any advice, pointers?
>Don't know anything about how vmware clients might be affected but you
can clone the disk like this:
dd if=/dev/hd<sourcedisk> of=/dev/<Targetdisk>
eg. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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