RE: Drive imaging

[Warren Melnick]

Nice email.  My email client automatically responds in whatever the original was.

 

Technically dd is a great way to do it.  More specifically you would want to pipe dd to bzip2 or something like that.  Anything else is likely to not truly be a image, but rather just a backup.  If that is what you want, then use tar and bzip2.  If you want to image to be as small as possible, try finding a utility (or writing one) that will zero out the unused space (ie cat /dev/zero > /dummyfile; rm /dummyfile) so that the empty space will compress as much as possible.

 

W

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Dow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Drive imaging

Er, that's a non-sequiter.

"dd" is the only way to

create a disk image. Such

files are likely to be much

larger than a CDROM, even

if you only create a single

partition image.

 

Maybe you should ask the

correct question. What is

it you want to accomplish.

 

Oh, I'll stop posting this

silly way if you stop using

HTML email.

{^_^}

----- Original Message -----

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 15:32 PM

Subject: Re: Drive imaging

I have not installed my cdr-w yet into linux would it be better to do it from windows or redhat
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Warren Melnick
  To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
  Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:33 PM
  Subject: RE: Drive imaging


  dd
    -----Original Message-----
    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
    Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:23 PM
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    Subject: Drive imaging


    What is the best software to image a hardrive w/ win98se and redhat together..