Oh I guess I left off the part of the sentence where I meant to say there are some tools that do account for free space and leave them out of the image. I think partimage which is on the clonezilla disc is the tool I'm thinking of.
Alex Alex Mandel wrote: > The classic tool is dd which makes a byte for byte exact copy, but this > includes the free space. > I can't remember what it's called right now but I'm sure it's on > http://www.clonezilla.org/ > > Which you'll have to do from a live disc anyways so get yourself a copy > and boot it up with the external drive attached and you should be good > to go. > > Alex > > Thomas Johnston wrote: >> I installed Debian (lenny) on my laptop last week and it is my first >> exposure to Linux. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for >> a utility to "image" my laptop's hard drive to an external drive. I >> would like to perform some kind of complete system backup now that I >> have the absolute essentials working. There are lots of tweaks that I >> would like to try (nvidia graphics driver, sleep/resume functionality, >> etc, etc.), but I am certain that I will wind up royally screwing >> things up. If possible, I would like to avoid spending another week >> just getting back to where I am now. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Thomas Johnston >> >> PS - Thanks again to all those who helped me get Matlab installed!! >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
