Auto replication

[boyska]

From a freepto, it should be easy to create another one.

[boyska]

It should be enough to make something similar to

(dd if=$src bs=1 count=1048576; dd if=${src}1) > $dest

where $src is the source device, $dest is the destination one and 1048576 is just 2048*512

2048 is the typical start sector of the first partition; 512 is the typical sector size. This can be read by fdisk -l.

[boyska]

also

parted /dev/sdX unit b print | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep -A1 End | tail -n1

will get the number of bytes to copy from /dev/sdX . It will probably be cleaner using python-parted

[ghost]

moved to v1.1

[ghost]

Who is working on it?

[boyska]

@paskao has something to show about it. yay!