On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:11:56AM -0700, Kelsey Jordahl wrote: > >>>>> Jeff Coppock writes: > > > The folks in my IS dept. at work use a program called Ghost > > (I think its from Norton) to copy an entire partition, like an > > image, from one HDD to another. They use it for HDD upgrades > > all the time. I even moves the Partition table. So uprading > > from a 6GB HDD to a 12GB HDD, you'd end up with a 6GB partition > > on the new drive. Then you can go in and add more partitions > > with the extra space or expand the one partition, or whatever. > > > I don't know what other products like this that are avaiable, > > or what cost might be associated with it, but maybe there's > > something like it in Debian or for Linux in general. > > I haven't used partimage, but plan to try it the next time I have this > kind of problem to solve:
partimage is great. It does exactly what Jeff says Ghost does, and does it for FAT and ext2. (maybe others?). If you're just doing ext2, then you might as well use dump, unless you really like ncurses GUIs like partimage has... dump more or less does what partimage does, with fewer features, but is easier to redirect i/o to/from. Both of them write only the actual data, so a partimage or dump of a 10GB FS with 500MB of data on it will only take up about 500MB, not the whole 10GB. I have personally used partimage while shuffling around a FAT partition, and it worked great. Absolutely no problems. partimage was solid, which is what you want with something as important as all your data! -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
