On Monday 10 Nov 2003 11:23 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > 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 has to be worth looking at, if only for that excellent reason. > 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 > Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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