Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Hal:

On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data
> on it (far less).  Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5
> GB.  I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD.  Is there a way to copy
> an image of just the files from one drive to another?  For example, an
> intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create an archive of
> just the files?

dd won't do that but partimage is probably the "intelligent dd" you are 
looking for.

Anyway, why do you want to avoid rsync -a, cp -r or the likes?

Cheers.