Hi, Miki!
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:43:49AM +0200, you wrote the following:
> I was just thinking this through too, as I want to migrate my system to a
> bigger disk.
>
> Yes, I know there is a howto, and yes, I know there is dd.
>
> Thing is, dd, much like Norton Ghost on linux partitions, dumps the whole
> damn thing. Ghost on FAT/NTFS FS's is smarter, making a filedump, and not
> mirroring the empty space of the partition.
> Question #1: Is there anything for linux that does this form of
> filedump? The only thing that springs to mind is tar...
You should use the dump and restore utilities -- they exist exactly
for this. They probably come with your distribution.
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