Re: Using rsync to syncronize two unmounted disk partitions

2006-03-20 Thread jp
For duping drives or big partitions I usually use dd with a bs of 1M. Haven't tried it with ssh yet. On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:54:32AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Antonio Arauzo Azofra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks to your message I did a new test, and it see

Re: Using rsync to syncronize two unmounted disk partitions

2006-03-20 Thread John Van Essen
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Antonio Arauzo Azofra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to your message I did a new test, and it seems > rsyncs allows this: > > rsync /dev/hda9 > > I have hanged the device testing to overflow it, but it seems it works. > (I haven't tested much yet) Just because r

Re: Using rsync to syncronize two unmounted disk partitions

2006-03-17 Thread Antonio Arauzo Azofra
Hi Wayne, Thanks for your reply, and thanks to Matthew and Matt too. Wayne Davison wrote: I wonder if someone has written a simple filesystem driver which mounts the raw data of a device as though it were a single, big file? Such a solution would allow the use of any normal filesystem tool (in

Re: Using rsync to syncronize two unmounted disk partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:34:43AM +0100, Antonio Arauzo Azofra wrote: > Would it be possible to syncronize two partitions at device level > somehow? I wonder if someone has written a simple filesystem driver which mounts the raw data of a device as though it were a single, big file? Such a solut

Using rsync to syncronize two unmounted disk partitions

2006-03-16 Thread Antonio Arauzo Azofra
Hi everybody, I have been using rsync for quite some time, and I've realized it is a fantastic tool. As it is able to syncronize two CD images, I was wondering, if I could do that with a harddisk partition. Would it be possible to syncronize two partitions at device level somehow? I mean using: