On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:33, James Knott wrote: > 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.
Well, I assumed that he wanted to do a backup only. Of course you can not unzip a compressed disc image which is bigger than your hdd. 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]
