On 9/14/05, JC de Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > ++From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > ++Of Anuerin Diaz > ++Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:55 PM > ++To: The Main Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Discussion List > ++Subject: Re: [plug] Cloning linux > ++ > ++On 9/14/05, Jolly Recto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > ++ > ++if i am not mistaken dd creates an exact clone of your disk so if you > ++are cloning a 40GB disk then you would need a 40GB space to save the > ++image. my preference is partimage with gzip compression. my 'pristine' > ++10GB windows installation takes a little above 2GB space and > ++restoration takes less than 10 minutes. :) > ++ > ++ciao! > [<-----snip----->] > correct. And that since dd copies every sector exactly (byte for byte, > including empty sectors), it's going to take a while. Although, I seem > to remember someone mentioning that you can pipe the output through gzip > or bzip, but I'd have to check up on that. >
from the partimage.org website: <quote> Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB. </quote> ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
