tips and tricks

• Boot the system being cloned using Knoppix, Tom's root boot, rescue image, etc. Don't try to dd a live, active, mounted filesystem

• Make disk images smaller by zeroing out unused space (on each filesystem) and compressing

  • dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/tmpfile bs=1k

• See www.cpqlinux.com/sshcopy.html for lots of examples

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