Re: NTFS write status (was: Re: What would I do without partimage?)

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:02:47 +0100 (MET) Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Is NTFS support safe to use for writing? > > It depends on what NTFS implementation you use. There are almost a dozen > different one which people greatl

Re: NTFS write status (was: Re: What would I do without partimage?)

2005-12-19 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Is NTFS support safe to use for writing? It depends on what NTFS implementation you use. There are almost a dozen different one which people greatly confuse and they often credit one's faults to an unrelated one. If you use the one from the open sou

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:04 +0200 (MET DST) Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ballard) writes: > > > You can't mount a [ntfsclone] image that has been saved with > > --save-image. > > If you want a compressed and mountable image then use ntfsclone wi

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:19PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'll find you the reference and quote it. It's in the readme. However, you're right, it doesn't say "after running any of these utilities." It says: NtfsFix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition that has been damaged by the old L

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:11:04PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > This was NEVER in the ntfsfix manual page, your claim is absolutely untrue. You're right; it's not in the man page. If I had read only that man page I wouldn't have made that statement. I never installed ntfsprogs before a

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ballard) writes: > You can't mount a [ntfsclone] image that has been saved with > --save-image. If you want a compressed and mountable image then use ntfsclone without the --save-image option and with a compressed filesystem. > I tried ntfsclone and it works about as

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-16 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ballard) writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:48:07AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > For ntfs partitions, i prefer the more mature ntfs support of the > > ntfsprogs and the added benefit of loop mounting an NTFS image file. > > You can't mount an image that has been save

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:48:07AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > For ntfs partitions, i prefer the more mature ntfs support of the > ntfsprogs and the added benefit of loop mounting an NTFS image file. > BTW, to save an image via network one can use whatever the pipe > permits. Here are some samples

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Marsman) writes: > There is also Ghost4linux (not the real Norton stuff) > > and i must say, it works great ! :D > > ghost multiple clients on a network, via ftp! try it out! > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/ > I downloaded it, bootet it and what did i end up wi

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Joseph H. Fry") writes: > Can you configure ntfsclone to clone an NTFS partition but not include the > swap file or other files of your choice? > I don't know because i never bothered... ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT] Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:43 am, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:20:50AM -0500, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > > I dream of the day that windows will use swap partition instead of a > > swap file sure it made sense to have a swap file that could adjust > > on the fly when drives w

[OT] Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:20:50AM -0500, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > I dream of the day that windows will use swap partition instead of a > swap file sure it made sense to have a swap file that could adjust > on the fly when drives were small... but with most machines having > 40GB + these days I c

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thursday 15 December 2005 9:01 am, Paul Seelig wrote: > I largely prefer ntfsclone from the ntfsprogs package over partimage. > Partimage is nice but the command line based ntfsclone is far more > flexible. Just check out the man page for some usage examples. ... > The ntfsprogs package contain

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 12/15/05, Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:25, William Ballard wrote: > > I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay > > mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. > > > > Every time I boot into it I re

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Martijn Marsman
Erhm well :D There is also Ghost4linux (not the real Norton stuff) and i must say, it works great ! :D ghost multiple clients on a network, via ftp! try it out! http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/ Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Enginee

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:25:35PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is > great. > I largely prefer ntfsclone from the ntfsprogs package over partimage. Partimage is nice but the command line based ntfsclone is far more flexible

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2005, 21:25 -0500 schrieb William Ballard: > Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is > great. Maybe ntfsclone (part of the ntfsprogs Package) could be of use. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>*What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where >>a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar >>tool) >>to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the sy

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: > *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where > a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar > tool) > to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. > a

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Marty
William Ballard wrote: I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke all over itself, then restore the cleanness. It's the o

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Arafangion
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:25, William Ballard wrote: > I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay > mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. > > Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke > all over itself,

What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread William Ballard
I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke all over itself, then restore the cleanness. It's the only thing that makes patch