Warren Togami wrote:
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 11:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:Slashdot has a thread on Ghost for Unix which also contains a side thread on "Partition Image". Has any one ever used either of these tools? If so, can you "copy" the image to a hard disc with a different size?Not with the g4u tool. It can only copy onto a disk with the same or larger size, rather useless. It copies the disk bit by bit rather than by files, so it doesn't recognize the filesystem (which is generally what you really want in a ghosting tool). Your only options are the proprietary tools like Norton Ghost which are pretty good, or tar used with something like netcat or SSH (rather ugly).
If you are doing this with an ext2 of XFS (and possibly ext3 using the ext2 tools and maybe JFS too) you can use their resize program to resize the image when you're done copying it over. The ext2 one seems to work well enough, but as always be careful.
--MonMotha
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