That was exactly my point =) Migs Registered user#381619 Random Musings (http://lifelin.blogspot.com/) Intelligence in the world is constant.... Unfortunately, the population is growing....
++-----Original Message----- ++From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf ++Of Anuerin Diaz ++Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:16 PM ++To: The Main Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Discussion List ++Subject: Re: [plug] Cloning linux ++ ++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 _________________________________________________ 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
