[luau] Ghost for Linux and Pattition Image

[MonMotha]

bhoward at hale.org wrote:
>>>>>>"W" == W Wayne Liauh <LiauhW001 at Hawaii.rr.com> writes:
>>>>>
> 
> W> Slashdot has a thread on Ghost for Unix which also contains a side 
> W> thread on "Partition Image".  Has any one ever used either of these 
> W> tools?  If so, can you "copy" the image to a hard disc with a different 
> W> size?
> 
> I've always found "dd" to be more that adequate for this sort of thing
> under Linux or any other UNIX system.  I'm curious why anyone would
> need to resort to ghost...
> 
> 					  Cheers,
> 					  Bruce

When cloning windows systems, Norton Ghost can modify the magic numbers 
associated with your NT install that are supposed to be unique (a plain 
disk image can't do this) as well as a few other things (people tout 
"ghostwalker" which is essentially a loopback mount of the fielsystem, 
but anyway).  However, on UNIX, I can't think of anything a specialized 
program would offer over dd and netcat :)

--MonMotha
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