Re: create an image of a partition
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:50, Rob Benton wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * ronin2@bellatlantic.net <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> [20030403 15:47 PST]:
> > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200
> > > Roman Joost <romanjoost@gmx.de> 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
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>
> 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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Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>
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