AFAIK there is nothing exactly like Ghost for Linux, at least not yet. Last I checked there were some alpha projects. They could me more mature by now...
The dd command can copy an entire hard drive or a single partition byte for byte. It's not as flexable as ghost however. It knows nothing about the size or partitioning of the hard drive and will also copy all of the empty blocks, so you can only restore a dd image to a drive/partition of the same or larger size, and if it's larger you will not be able to access the extra space. dd if=/dev/hda of=hdaimage bs=10M This will create an image of the entire hda drive including all partitions in the file hdaimage in the current directory (don't create this file on hda obviously). The bs makes dd copy 10 meg chunks at a time, greatly speeding up the copy. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hda1image bs=10M This will create an image of just the first partition on hda. man dd for more info. Tar works perfectly for copying a single partition. It captures all of the file system metadata. If you are using SE Linux you need to make sure you are using a version of Tar that captures SE Linux info and you may need to pass a command line switch to turn it on. Of course if you are trying to restore a system from tarballs you will have to partition and format by hand first and then restore each tarball for each partition. I'm confused about tarring /dev. It used to be that /dev was a normal folder with normal files. Then came devfs and now udev. I think some of the files in /dev are created at boot by the kernel and maybe some are real or something, I'm not sure. On Dec 9, 2007 12:24 PM, Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to clone or ghost a Linux hard drive?? > > Doug VE5DA > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- 73 de n1ywb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
