yeah, be aware ghost will not work on other journaling filesystems like reiserfs, or if you are using outboard raids/clustering setups there are inherent problems ghosting there as well. Also in dos/standalone mode, if the source drive has fat16 partitions, and you are dumping the image to a file on a drive/partition thats also formatted fat16, it often will only recognize 1 fat16 partition at a time, so will either ignore the source or destination f16 partition. VERY annoying when that happens but hasnt been as much of a problem with fat32. ghost definitely is not the endall/beall cloning app but when you're dealing with replicating windows partitions it still seems to save me the most time/headaches overall. Otherwise, one can get by with rsynch/dd/fips..
d -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Guerrero Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [bits] mirrored dual boot drive; problem with MS boot sector I remember ghost. I used it extensively when I did sysadmin stuff at a bunch of hospitals and it was an incredibly useful tool. I was wondering though, if there were any open-source alternatives that were being developed and found a couple of sites of interest. http://dfarq.homeip.net/archives/00000079.htm is an article that tells you how to do some of the stuff ghost does with a tool called PartImage (http://www.partimage.org/) apparently it's still buggy/beta with ntfs (also discussed in the article), but works fine with fatXX and most linux filesystems. and it's developed by some frenchies. who do you trust less, symantec or the frogs? mikeg -- _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
