Filesystem-aware disk imaging

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Wed Mar 28 12:41:56 EDT 2007


On Mar 27, 2007, at 21:28, Ben Scott wrote:

> Just mount the partition and run rsync, tar, or
> just "cp -a".

Even that's a trick - tar and cp ignore certain types of special  
files.  rsync seems to be the only tool that really works:

   http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2005/08/13/copying-a-unix- 
filesystem

and at that it can't handle ACL's and POSIX EA's on all platforms.

I *have* had luck with dd'ing an NTFS filesystem and using ntfsresize  
on it.  The gparted boot CD might even have a copy on there.

-Bill

-----
Bill McGonigle, Owner           Work: 603.448.4440
BFC Computing, LLC              Home: 603.448.1668
bill at bfccomputing.com           Cell: 603.252.2606
http://www.bfccomputing.com/    Page: 603.442.1833
New Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/
VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf



More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list