Re: [SLE] General questions to 'dd'.

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:54 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 22:21, pelibali wrote:
>
> > But how to save space and remove somehow the 'empty' disk-areas from
> > the end of such image files?! Can I do it during dd-ing or somehow
> > later on? Please any idea?
>
> This is what you need:
>
> http://www.partimage.org
>
> It know about the filesystem and backups only data, not empty space from the
> disk.
>
> It even knows about Windows NTFS. I have used it to clone Windows stations
> through the network.
>
> It would be very useful if SUSE had partimage in the "Rescue System". Can you
> boot CD1 of SUSE10 and get back to the list to tell?
>
>

I find partimage extremely lacking. It goes by partition only, and
doesn't dump disk to disk. So if you have a ton of partitions, its a
giant PITA.

There ought to be something similar to ghost, but I haven't found it...
How about Novell's zen-imaging? Last I worked with it, it only did
windows partitions, anyone know if Novell has updated it? I did alot of
work with it and found it almost equal to ghost in an environment with
Windows dekstops.


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