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Old 02-07-2002
DanielB DanielB is offline
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You can use dd for that. Lets say you want to create an image file of hda you would use : dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/hdaimage.

If you got 2 identical disks you could mirror them like this :
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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