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 -- Christopher Stender, R&D Team Mobile Devices SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
