On Seg, 06 Mar 2017, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
Is there someway one can avoid creating such a large iso for no reason,
when the filesize is a fraction of the whole disk. One way I thought of
was to shrink the partitions to just about 99% full, and leave the blank
part of the disk as not allocated. Would that help?
It is possible, but on a filesystem level.
You can copy the contents with rsync.
Or take a look at partclone, which is meant to create images of
partitions, if you don't want to deal with individual files.
clonezilla is a front-end to several tools (including partclone) to
backup and restore drives or partitions.
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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