On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:06, Anders Norrbring wrote:
> I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to another,
> but that only works when the target is equally big or larger than the
> source.
>
> Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a
> remote disk that's only 16GB?
>
> Obviously dd won't work...

You can use:
dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > some_file.img.gz

This compress the image on the fly.


Best regards,

Christopher
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