[Gllug] Make ghost on a dedicated server

[- Tethys]

On Dec 6, 2007 5:51 PM, Raphaël Benard <raphy_02_4 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> For test of the creation of image, I have create an image by partition with dd.
> I have no place on the disk for store the image, so I put it on the ftp server
>  in the same time.

I'd use netcat for that, rather than ftp, but I suppose it'll probably work.

> It's OK, md1 is a partions in EXT3(it's only /boot).
> But md5(/) and md7(/var), are in XFS and when I try to mount it,  mount failed(with unknow file system error).
> On all my other machine, this way works.
> I don't konw if it's because of the raid on the dedicated server or because of the XFS file system.

Did you remount the filesystem readonly before doing the dd?

Tet

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