On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:59:06 +0000 Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment:
> > dd is probably all anyone on Linux needs, but doesn't have menus and a > > pretty face. The M$ware may be able to do conversion if the source and > > destination don't have matching CHS? I use DFSee myself, used to use > > Partition Magic, never Ghost or Drive Image. > > The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the destination drive > will be identical to the source drive. If, like most people, you've bought > a bigger disk, then that's hard luck. The partition table will show it as > the same size as the old disk. I don't know where the actual full size of > the disk is calculated so you might be able to add new partitions later, > or you may not. > > I would always prefer to use tar (with the correct magic flags) to copy > drives. > > (Ghost does handle different size disks, but does it handle your > filesystem? And it does cost money, or did the last I heard.) Partition Image only copies the actual data on the drive and either does a .gz or .bz2 file. It can break down files into multiple sizes, for example I burn to CD's as a stable backup. It will allow you to restore to different partition sizes, provided there is enough room for the data. And is it GPL free software. URPMI partimage or http://www.partimage.org Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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