>It looks as if the point you're missing is the nature of an image. Thanks for your reply. I was aware of the nature of an image, that's what I like about them. If your HD blows up or your computer is stolen just restore the image to the new hardware a chasteningly but wiser user perhaps but not the disaster I read in "The Buffalo News" about a woman whose laptop containing ten years of musical composition, was stolen with its contents being the only copies. Ten years without backing up, imagine that.
I was hoping however that if one changed the file system on the backup media, then the 'data,' would be saved to the file system. At that point one could then change the file system of the source partition with mkfs.ext4 [I'm using unstable here] then restore the image as envisioned above. Grub2 is on board so the ext4 image should boot. I would have to change some labeling in fstab probably. Is this just magical thinking? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100711145550.3d26e...@mondo