On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hal Vaughan <h...@halblog.com> wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an > image of just the files from one drive to another? For example, an > intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create an archive of > just the files? >
afaik, as of a year ago, there is no ghost like dd. there was ghost4linux which looked like a front end to dd | gzip | nfs/scp/ftp/etc that said, i don't know why you wouldn't just use rsync as using the feature in ghost that creates a dynamic image size isn't really admissible in court anyway :) btw, the best cp command for the job is cp -Ra (a for archive - maintain all permissions - do this as root to maintain uid/gid of other users/groups). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinfydu5=mxm=om+qxsuixxxnkerukxfoih4o...@mail.gmail.com
