Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-06 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/05/2018 11:21 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: The raw mode does not do resizing, but with ntfsclone you can restore and image to a larger partition. At that point, it will still be the same size as the original partition, but then you run the ntfsclone resize option, and it will than modi

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: "Michael D. Setzer II" , Community support for Fedora users From: Todd Chester Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:41:23 -0700 Send reply to: Community support for Fe

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/files/g4l%20documentation/g4l0.53-docu mentation.pdf/download That was built using Fedora 24 as a base. THe 0.54 version is now using Fedora 27 as the build system. On 5 Apr 2018 at 21:38, Todd Chester wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/05/2018 01:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: G4L includes ntfsclone for windows paritions, and fsarchiver for that and others, and it can backup data only, and is faster. Also, has options to change size of partitions. Bit level restores exactly the same size, but can be resized by other

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/05/2018 01:15 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I like making image files, and include the date as back of the image name. That way, I can have multiple backups of images, and in the event of something going wrong, can restore older versions on other disk to recover files that might have be

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 5 Apr 2018 at 8:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:36:20 -0700 Send reply to: Community support

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 5 Apr 2018 at 9:58, ToddAndMargo wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: ToddAndMargo Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:58:34 -0700 Send reply to: Community

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
2018 at 10:21, ToddAndMargo wrote: From: ToddAndMargo Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org, mi...@guam.net Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:21:26 -0700 > > > On 04/04/2018

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/04/2018 09:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the reply. There are lots of issues with doing cloning. Usually, doing a disk clone gets arround issues where the boot loader is using the blkid, since it makes the blikids for the partitions the same. Problem with that thou is tha

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/05/2018 08:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote: If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that operating system whose name I shall not mention.  (I hear it is slow, buggy, and expensive.)  Stay in Linux.     # dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote: If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that operating system whose name I shall not mention.  (I hear it is slow, buggy, and expensive.)  Stay in Linux.    # dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx If I understood the original

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
: Subject: Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Todd Chester Date sent: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 00:59:39 -0700 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > > > On 04/04/2018

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-05 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/04/2018 09:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the reply. There are lots of issues with doing cloning. Usually, doing a disk clone gets arround issues where the boot loader is using the blkid, since it makes the blikids for the partitions the same. Problem with that thou is tha

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-04 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 4 Apr 2018 at 21:01, Todd Chester wrote: Subject:Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Todd Chester Date sent: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:01:15 -0700 Send reply to: Community

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-04 Thread Todd Chester
On 04/02/2018 11:30 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I'm the maintainer of the G4L disk imaging project since 2004, and I use Fedora as the build platform. Currently using Fedora 27. Have an issue from a user that has me baffled, so am hoping someone here might provide some guidance. The progr

Re: OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?

2018-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/02/2018 11:30 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: The user though, with a real 256G disk doesn't seem to get any compression of the disk or partitions. Them resulting images are close to the same size as the disks or partitions?? Does the user have LUKS encrypted partitions?  Encrypting the