On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 19:16:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> 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.

As I say, it depends on what you want to do.

Greg
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