Re: create an image of a partition
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
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