Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:18:58 +0200 From: George Jeliazkov <georgej@mail.rmdvarna.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <20021214091858.1c837dfd.georgej@mail.rmdvarna.com> In-Reply-To: <20021214025214.GG503@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021214004330.GA503@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131908070.41972-100000@wonkity.com> <20021214025214.GG503@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:22:14 +1030 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 19:16:26 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > 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. > > As I say, it depends on what you want to do. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > have you looked at this: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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