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
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