On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:43:12PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > I think this tool *dd*, resolve your problem. > > http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image > > http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/ Or, you can use tar to create to stdout, pipe the output to another tar process to extract from stdin.