Hmm, I would think the old 'tar' trick is safer than using dd (unless the disks are completly identical):
Mount from disk and the to disk in under a booted linux, so like from/ and to/ then (cd from; tar -cpf - .) | (cd ../to; tar -xpf -) There are probably some arguments I'm forgetting to make sure that links and such go correctly and permissions are maintained. I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to make a rescue disk or a version of a one disk linux that would automate this and or do it via a network, either by streaming tar over a socket somehow or using NFS. HTH In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > >hi ya... > >i assume oyu have a second disk... > >( make sure its the same sized disks to keep things simple ) >dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > >-- problem with ghost and dd is that it will also copy bad block info > from the source to the 2nd disk... > - disks now days are good enough that "bad blocks" is not an issue > >if you do NOT have a 2nd disk...but have lots of disk space left over... > > ( make sure its the same sized partitions to keep things simple ) > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda11 > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda12 > >c ya >alvin > >On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: > >> Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to >> ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it.. >> >> -anks >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > as always, nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.fargus.net/nick Developer - Systems Engineer - Mad System Guru - MOO Sales he picks up scraps of information/he's adept at adaptation because for strangers and arrangers/constant change is here to stay