Hi all, I'm trying out virtual box in an attempt to avoid having to reboot my dual boot machine again :).
I've removed all the junk from my Windows partition and it now only uses up 13 gigs. What I would like to do is to create a VirtualBox image that I can then use inside virtual box. I don't want to risk using the partitions directly at this point in case something goes wrong! I can use VBoxManage converfromraw to convert a "dd" image into a virtual box image to use, however the problem is my partition size is 110gigs, with only 13 gigs in use and of course dd would just create me a 110gig image. I thought about creating a new partition on the disk and copying the data across, but that seems very inefficient way of doing it, and I don't have any free space which means scary partition resizing on my live system! I cannot afford to have any downtime at the moment or my project manager will shoot me! tbh he'd probably shoot me if he knew I was even looking at this, but it gives me something to do while I'm waiting for compiles ;) Any suggestions of tools on Linux I can use to create a minimal image of this data on my windows parition? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
