SUMMARY: : How to copy disk partitions from disk A to disk B

Thanks for the replys.

The best answer I got (from Mike, Maney and Binand )
was to use    sfdisk -d

sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb

Others suggested dd which would work, But would be much slower due to 10GB of data


Origional Question follows:

> In Solaris I use this command
> prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
> to copy the partitions from one disk to a second.
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to do this on RHEL 3.0
> I can get the info from disk A using fdisk -l
> 
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1        19    152586   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            20       401   3068415   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3           402       656   2048287+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda4           657      4462  30571695    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5           657      4462  30571663+  83  Linux
> 
> Now the qusetion is how do I partition the disk B with this info in a script?
> 
> TIA.
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