Hi, Hugo: On Monday 10 January 2011 21:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > 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. > > But partimage will no restore to a smaller artition
I thought you could do that (it's a long time since I used partimage last time) but it seems you are right. There's a workaround, though: you first restore to a partition big enough and the you use parted to reduce it to lower limits. 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/201101122308.00092.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
