Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan 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?
dd won't do that but partimage is probably the "intelligent dd" you are looking for. Anyway, why do you want to avoid rsync -a, cp -r or the likes? Cheers. -- 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/201101101443.40331.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
