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From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Imaging the hard drive?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:51:03 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203190949530.2003-100000@toccata.grg.afb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203190917410.8968-100000@mgorse.dhs.org>

You're correct, Mike. dd will write an exact byte by byte image. He was 
asking about Ghost, and I think this would be the analog to Ghost. tar is 
also an excellent choice, however.
 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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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Octavian Rasnita
 ` Janina Sajka
   ` Mike Gorse
     ` Willem van der Walt<vdwaltw@health.gov.za>
     ` Janina Sajka [this message]
       ` Jude DaShiell
         ` John
     ` Anders Holmberg
       ` Peter Toneby
         ` Anders Holmberg
           ` Peter Toneby
             ` Octavian Rasnita
             ` Anders Holmberg

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