From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 23:18:30 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 B449937B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:18:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rmdvarna.com (mail.rmdvarna.com [195.24.57.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D125943EC5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from georgej@mail.rmdvarna.com) Received: from morpheus.d2999.customs.bg (midgard.d2999.customs.bg [10.30.199.46]) by mail.rmdvarna.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gBE7I1q16146 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:18:02 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from georgej@mail.rmdvarna.com) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:18:58 +0200 From: George Jeliazkov 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> <20021214025214.GG503@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:22:14 +1030 "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" 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