On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:50, Rob Benton wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 > > > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > How about tar-ing up the whole partition. I don't know how much space > > > that will save but it will surely come in under 3 GB. > > > > This is a Good Idea. Instead of taking a snapshot of the entire > > partition (which includes all of the unused space), just mount the vfat > > filesystem on it and tar it up. It will only be as large as the used > > space on the disk, which, for a fresh install, probably isn't all that > > large. Maybe even small enough to just put on a CD-R? > > > > good times, > > Vineet > > -- > > http://www.doorstop.net/ > > -- > > http://www.aclu.org/ It's all about Freedom. > > Could you do that with a linux install, too if it was one partition or > is dd a better idea? > > tar -cjf linuxBackup.tar.bz2 / yup, but with debian I would recommend just taring up any data that you cant get back and doing a dpkg --get-selections >selections.bak and then when you restore your install you can just do a dpkg --set-selections <selections.bak. You dont waste so much space that way.
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