Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> 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.


But partimage will no restore to a smaller artition

Hugo