On 19-Sep-00 Rochester Payne wrote:
> Is there a linux program that I can use to create a compressed file of
> used sectors that can be used to restore my drive without reinstalling
> linux .. ... I would like to read fat32 as well as ext2 sectors ..
>
In Linux you don't need the exact sector layout with two exceptions:
the boot sector and the kernel.
You can simply use tar to backup everything (so compression is a risk -- one
error and everything behind the error is lost, at least with gzip).
Once you restore everything just recreate the partitions (you can even change
the layout) and untar the archive. Then run lilo and you should be fine
again (i.e. that will recreate the bootsector where it was before and point
to the actual kernel position again).
With the fat32 and a bootable windows on that there is of course a
problem.... But I don't know of anything that's picking only the used
sectors. Maybe try something thats blanking (i.e. writing "0" everywhere) all
unused parts -- then it would compress very well....
K.-H.
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