From: "Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>" <vdwaltw@health.gov.za>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Imaging the hard drive?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:24:13 +0200 (SAST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203191621100.17569-100000@rh.health.gov.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203190917410.8968-100000@mgorse.dhs.org>
Hi,
I have done that successfully accross
different disks.
I think as long as one dd the partition with an existing fs on it
to a partition on the new disk with a simmelar partition that is the same
size or larger as the origional one, one should be ok.
regards, Willem
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Janina, I am not sure that that would work well for what he wants to do.
> I would not trust dd to make an image of a file system for the purpose of
> transporting it to another computer which may have a different hard disk
> and a Linux partition of a different size. Tar should work well, however,
> so long as you pass it parameters to exclude anything that you do not want
> copied (ie, /proc).
>
> -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Imaging in linux is the easiest imaging you will ever do.
> >
> > Use the dd command partition by partition as follows:
> >
> k
>
>
>
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Willem van der Walt
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` Jude DaShiell
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