Mirroring a server

[Brian Kelsay]

>> Best way or the quickest?
>> I do it the wrong way and the quickest way possible:
>> 
>> cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
>> cat /dev/hdb > /dev/hdd
>This is totally evil and a huge waste of disk if the old disk is
>a 4 GB and the new disk is a 40GB. Not to mention Linux may complain
>that the disk says it is a 40GB drive and the partition info says it is
>a 4GB drive.
>Why not just ghost it?
>Or ghost4unix?
>http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/
>
>Of course g4u has similar problems that the above cat command does.
>You will have to go in and create partitions of the leftover space
>from a smaller disk to a larger disk. 

After using g4u you can use www.systemrescuecd.org  or www.sysresccd.org disk to resize partitions. 
 From the boot prompt make sure you type fb1024 or fb600 to get framebuffer mode.  41 for US 
keymap.  Then when the the cli comes up, do run_qtparted.

Brian Kelsay