On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >
> >> What do you mean by "better"?  What's the purpose of the clone?
> >
> > Ghost copies every block of partitions with filesystems it doesn't
> > understand.
> 
> So does dd.  But that's pretty much what he said he didn't want to do.

Right.  "Better" would be a program that understands the filesystem and
*doesn't* copy unused blocks.  Partimage is like that.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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