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Subject: Re: Question about making a new machine from an old one
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * mount new-disk-a /gerbils
 * mkdir /gerbils/usr /gerbils/var /gerbils/home
 * mount new-disk-d /gerbils/usr
 * mount new-disk-e /gerbils/var
 * mount new-disk-f /gerbils/home

(mount these with "-o async", that will make the rest much faster.)

After this, I usually just do a

===
cd /
find -dx . | cpio -dump /gerbils
find -dx usr var home | cpio -dump /gerbils
vi /gerbils/etc/<whatever>
===

That's how I duplicated the 20 machines in our disk array here.  (Of
course, you probably don't want the "/home" to be copied, but you get
the idea.)

Satoshi