By "make an image of the drive" do you mean a ghost image? If so, that really
won't do me much good because I'm going to be putting the dive in a different
system with much different hardware.
Kenny
> At 04:00 PM 3/9/2000 , you wrote:
>
> i'm by no means an expert but why don't you make a image of the drive? then
> write the image to the new drive.
>
> ~kurth
>
> >Well, ok, then.... Let's not ignore things here. I gave a fairly detailed
> >account of what I am looking to do, and why. Aparently, several people think
> >that there would be a better way to go about it, but no one is saying how!
So,
> >if people have other solutions, please feel free to share them. I am
> >always open
> >to suggestions ;-)
> >TIA,
> >Kenny
> > >
> > > >I was wondering if there is a way to see how big
> > > >an archive would be if I were to tar an entire disk.
> > >
> > > Ignoring many details and questions that occur to
> > > me (like the question of whether this is the right
> > > way to approach the problem in the first place) I'd
> > > suggest something like this:
> > >
> > > tar cvzf - / | dd bs=1024k of=/dev/null
> > >
> > > which would have tar generating the (compressed) archive
> > > image and feeding it to dd, who has been told to simply
> > > throw everything into the bit-bucket. The intent here
> > > is that dd will report how many records (blocks) tar
> > > has handed to it, for example:
> > >
> > > 2356+1 records in
> > > 2356+1 records out
> > >
> > > which, since we specified 1Mb records, means the archive
> > > would require approx 2.4 Gb. As I said, various details
> > > are being ignored here, but that's one simple-minded way
> > > to do it...
> > >
> > >
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