On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:28 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I have 2 drives setup with lvm. They are basically raid 0 (striped). One > is dying. > > I wonder if could duplicate the partitions to a new drive using dd. I need > to copy the lvm identity as well. I'm guessing that is in the boot block > of the drive? > > So if I have sda, with partitions sda1, sda2, then if I use dd to > copy /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, then swap the drives and I'm good? /dev/sda is the entire drive, including the boot block, partition table and all partitions. You won't need to copy sda1 and sda2 separately. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx