[luau] Ghost for Linux and Pattition Image

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Sat Nov 2 14:04:00 PST 2002


Warren Togami wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 11:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> 
>>Slashdot has a thread on Ghost for Unix which also contains a side 
>>thread on "Partition Image".  Has any one ever used either of these 
>>tools?  If so, can you "copy" the image to a hard disc with a different 
>>size?
>>
> 
> 
> Not with the g4u tool.  It can only copy onto a disk with the same or
> larger size, rather useless.  It copies the disk bit by bit rather than
> by files, so it doesn't recognize the filesystem (which is generally
> what you really want in a ghosting tool).
> 
> Your only options are the proprietary tools like Norton Ghost which are
> pretty good, or tar used with something like netcat or SSH (rather
> ugly).
> 

If you are doing this with an ext2 of XFS (and possibly ext3 using the 
ext2 tools and maybe JFS too) you can use their resize program to resize 
the image when you're done copying it over.  The ext2 one seems to work 
well enough, but as always be careful.

--MonMotha
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