How to clone partion structure which includes LVM

pembo13 · 05-24-2005, 09:51 AM

How do I go about cloning a partion structre of a drive, to another drive (external drive) considering that the source drive contains LVM partions?

I want to have similiar partion structures so that I can use dump to backup to the external hard drive nightly.

homey · 05-24-2005, 12:08 PM

You should be able to use sfdisk ( scriptable fdisk ) as root user.
For example:
sfdisk -d /dev/hda > my_partitions.txt
sfdisk /dev/hdb < my_partitions.txt

I don't know if you can go directly from drive a to drive b like this but you may want google on this befor you try it....
sfdisk -d /dev/hda > /dev/hdb