From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 18:17:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E36337B401; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:17:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD8743EA9; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBE2GRuF041990; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:16:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id gBE2GQ3K041987; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:16:27 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:16:26 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Muller Petr , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition In-Reply-To: <20021214004330.GA503@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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