Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:16:26 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Muller Petr <pmuller@bpz.muzlin.cz>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131908070.41972-100000@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20021214004330.GA503@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > >> What do you mean by "better"? What's the purpose of the clone? > > > > Ghost copies every block of partitions with filesystems it doesn't > > understand. > > So does dd. But that's pretty much what he said he didn't want to do. Right. "Better" would be a program that understands the filesystem and *doesn't* copy unused blocks. Partimage is like that. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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