Saturday 15 September 2007, Michal Soltys wrote: | Well, it will be as big as the files in it, if you decide to use | "special" ntfsclone's format, which is better suited for network / | burn backups. Besides you can pipe it through gzip, split, etc. just found out, thanx :) .. gzip helped to make it smaller.
| Sparse files will be better if you need any sort of access to the | image after cloning (mounting, resizing ntfs volume, etc.). i do not need it right now, but i'm just thinking about making a sparse file containing the image of the vista partition. then in theory i could use it with wine if needed.... hmm... maybe something to have a close look after the final exams. | Also, be sure to delete page and hibernation files before doing | backup - both can be safely removed w/o causing any harm. yea... that's a special story. i tried to disable the swap file of vista... what lead me unable to use it at all. with 1gb of ram, vista failed to boot, so i had to reenable it in the windows protected mode system. now i removed it from the linux side, when i backuped the vista partition. thanx + greetings, Damir _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
