[Wylug-help] PartImage * Disk cloning

[Dan Walker]

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On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 14:42, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Dan Walker wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with partimage? I need to copy a
> > partition from a dodgy HD to another partition on a bigger disk.
> >
> > PartImage seems ideal, except it seems to require you to store the image
> > in a file and them restore from it.
>
> Save to a file and restore to the new partition from the file?
Pretty much. Which is ideal for a disk designed to re-ghost the drive but
otherwise irritating.

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> or just use tar
>
>  mount you new partition under /mnt/new (or whatever)
>
>
> (cd /old ; tar clf - . ) | (cd /mnt/new ; tar xfv - -p )
>
> the l option forces tar to stay in the one file system.
I think I used cp in the end. I may have been lucky to get it to work.

Thanks anyway,

Dan

P.S. Welcome back from holiday!

- --
Daniel Walker
'Physics is like sex; sure, it may occasionally give some
practical results, but that's not why we do it"
- - Richard Feynman
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