[ILUG] hard disk imaging

[Tiarnan O'Corrain]

> If you can have both the drives in the
> machine at the same time, then just recreate the partition 
> scheme on the
> second drive, and use tar
> (I always end up messing this up, but something like
> tar -cpX /tmp/exclude  f - / | (cd /mnt && tar xvpf -)
> where /tmp/exclude has
> /mnt/
> /proc/
> 
> but try this first).

Also, do it in single-user mode to avoid messing up daemons
and logs.