Re: moving windows

[Kent West]

martin f krafft wrote:

Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?

Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU tools
to do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so save
$$$ on buying Norton Ghost.

okay. well then:

  dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1024k | gzip > partition.gz

will create a compressed image of a partition.

  zcat partition.gz | dd of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024k

will restore it.

In general, or at least in this specific instance, how does one determine what block size to use?

Thanks!

Kent