Christopher Stender wrote: > 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. > >
And then, when you try to unzip it on a disk that's too small??? Whether you zip it or not, you can't use an image to move to a smaller disk. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
