On Nov 21, 2007 1:26 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com
<http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:
>/ I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system.
/>/
/>/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/>/ /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% /
/>/ /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home
/>/ hda2 is 2G swap
/>/
/>/ I am trying to back that complete image up on my centos 5 system.
/>/ I can do the dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh root at machine
<http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> 'cat > disk.img'
/>/ which gets me the whole 100G.
/>/
/>/ As you can see most of the disk is unused.
/>/ Is there a way to trim the resulting image to only be 10G instead of 100G?
/>/
/>/ Thanks,
/>/ Jerry
/
Try gzipping it, or bzip2:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | gzip | ssh root at machine
<http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> 'cat > disk.img.gz'
Make sure to put the gzip before the ssh, so you'll compress before
you send over the network.
Brian,
Oh that compression will help, thanks.
However, once I have the image file I actually want to uncompress it and
resize it
so its down to the 10G. I will be using this file as a virtual image. I
dont want it setting there taking
up 100G when all it really is for me is 10G.
How do I CHOP off the unneeded 90G.
Jerry
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