topic Replicating Linux Partition table in Operating System - Linux

Replicating Linux Partition table

Ashit D — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:40:47 GMT

Is there any way by which I can replicate the fdisk partition table on RHEL5.
My scenario is I have a 70GB disk and I have 15 X 4.5 GB partitions on it. I want to have
similar setup on another 100 disks. I dont want to go into fdisk utility and create these
15X 100 partions manually.

Please let me know if there is way do it.

Re: Replicating Linux Partition table

Goran Koruga — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:23:09 GMT

Hi.

Sure, sfdisk has this functionality. There might be other tools.

To store it:

sfdisk -d ... > disk.out

To restore it:

sfdisk ... < disk.out

Regards,
Goran

Re: Replicating Linux Partition table

Ivan Krastev — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:44:35 GMT

And good old dd:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-backup-hard-disk-partition-table-mbr.html

regards,
ivan