On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write > the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want > install all the drivers and time consuming reboots.
parted can copy a partition to an image, and resize it on the fly. Frank > > Maybe someone know a good tool or some docs, which describes a good way > to backup the data like "dd". > > > Thanks, > > Roman > -- > www: http://www.romanofski.de > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
