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The best utility for the purpose of creating images under Linux is dd, although it simply creates a binary file which is an exact copy of the partition and are not necessarily easily compressible, if you did not initialize the partition with zeros. However if you are using ext2/3, you can use the e2image -r command to create a sparse image, which will compress correctly, meaning that you can bzip compress it very well, it only requires the space of the used portion of the partition. Similarly, xfs_copy, part of the xfsprogs package, on several distros will produce sparse images, which can be bzip compressed, as well. While I do not know which of these utilities are in what packages, in all distros, I do know that they are on Knoppix, and their man pages are extremely helpful. good luck -David matt lee wrote: i'm finding that as i want to try out new/different distro's, often i end up back where i started after not liking the new distro. is there a program similar to symantec ghost for linux? that way i could just setup my system to how i want it, image it, and if the new distro i'm trying out doesnt jive, i can reimage, instead of reinstalling stuff for hours. |
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