Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:14:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: Qingyue Shirley Wang <qingyue@cs.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk imaging Message-ID: <20000207221437.B17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <389F65B6.519211B9@S1.com>; from Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 11:39:18AM %2B1100 References: <055A195871E5D1119F8100A0C9499B5FCDF4CC@exchsrv1.cs.washington.edu> <389F65B6.519211B9@S1.com>
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* Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> [000207 17:05] wrote: > G'day Shirley, > > > > > I need to package up a disk image (basically a sector-by-sector copy > > and > > then compressed) so that it can be cloned to another machine with the > > same > > hardware configurations. Is there any tool available that will > > accomplish > > this task? What is the best way to do it? > > yup - check out 'dd' (man dd) and 'gzip' (man gzip). dd is a standard > tool, you may need to install gzip from the ports - or you can use the > standard 'compress', which isn't as "good" as gzip, but does an ok job > of compressing files anyway. FYI, gzip has come bundled with FreeBSD for as long as I've used it. (2.2.2) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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