Anders Norrbring wrote: > Christopher Stender skrev: >> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:33, James Knott wrote: >>> Christopher Stender wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:06, Anders Norrbring wrote: >>>>> I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to >>>>> another, but that only works when the target is equally big or >>>>> larger than the source. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a >>>>> remote disk that's only 16GB? >>>>> >>>>> Obviously dd won't work... >>>> You can use: >>>> dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > some_file.img.gz >>>> >>>> This compress the image on the fly. >>> And then, when you try to unzip it on a disk that's too small??? >>> >>> Whether you zip it or not, you can't use an image to move to a >>> smaller disk. >> >> Well, I assumed that he wanted to do a backup only. Of course you can >> not unzip a compressed disc image which is bigger than your hdd. > > > Exactly... > What I'm looking for is to move a working system to another computer > with smaller disk...
Yes, but just so no-one forgets, if I remember correctly, the used disk space on the current large HDD is smaller than the avaioable size of the new HDD? Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
