Oops, I forgot the -p in the untar portion of the tar command;
It should be:
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/new; tar xvfp - )
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Karsten Bolding wrote:
>
> However the reason being, I moved wife and kids from Windows 98 to Linux a
> few weeks ago and they are all happy about it - so I just wanted to shrink
> the Windows partition from 13GB before to 2-3GB - to keep a few essentials -
> Lego Studios - in this case. And s
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:24:00PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote:
> I actually thought it was a pretty well formulated question - even
> though Martin Krafft firstly, did not like it on this list and secondly,
> did not like the formulation - at least it was very short.
>
> However the reason bein
also sprach Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.02.2044 +0100]:
> be ware, a Windows install writes bits and peaces at specific places on
> the disk and expects to find those at those places. Unfortunately some
> of those places are remembered as disk addresses rather then as file/dir
> n
On Saturday 02 February 2002 11:44 am, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:40:49PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > > > Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
> > >
> > > Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU
> > > tools to do a backu
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:40:49PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
> >
> > Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU tools
> > to do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so save
> > $$$ on buy
also sprach Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.02.1956 +0100]:
> In general, or at least in this specific instance, how does one
> determine what block size to use?
it doesn't really matter. if you have fast media and memory to spare,
then setting the size higher will speed up the process. but
martin f krafft wrote:
Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU toolsto do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so save$$$ on buying Norton Ghos
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 19:26, csj wrote:
> I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU tools
> to do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so save
> $$$ on buying Norton Ghost.
Go here http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/index.html for mondo and mindi
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> > > Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
>
> Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU tools
> to do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so save
> $$$ on buying Norton Ghost.
okay. well then:
dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1024k | gzip > pa
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:00:43 +0100
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also sprach Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.02.1144 +0100]:
> > Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
>
> wrong forum.
Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU
also sprach Karsten Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.02.1144 +0100]:
> Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar?
wrong forum.
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