[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Frank Kumro]

I did not know about the win 98 mbr thing so thank you, Its been so
long since ive dealt with windows 98.

On 7/25/06, Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks josh! I was hoping there was a command line way to do this...
>
> On 7/25/06, joshj at linuxmail.org <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > When we last left our adventurers...
> >
> > > Is there a way to create a single image of a hard drive in linux? This
> > > hard drive is 4gb and I need the backup because I want to transfer the
> > > image to a new (larger) hard drive and then expand that partition to
> > > take up the whole drive. Now this is not my computer its a companies
> > > windows 98 machine, its beyond me why a company is using windows 98.
> > > In windows there is Acronis True Image 9 which appears to do what I
> > > want however I would have to use a family members machine to do that
> > > (since I dont run windoze). So is there any way in linux to do this?
> > > Thanks in advance !!
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hdX of=hd.img
> >
> > We did this recently to copy harddrives. But you can do it to make an
> > image on another drive and then transfer if thats what you need to do. To
> > Transfer:
> >
> > dd if=hd.img of=/dev/hdX
> >
> > Then you can use any partition manager to resize. Or to copy right from
> > drive to drive:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY
> >
> > On a 4G hd this won't take to long. But it can be sped up by changing the
> > byte size:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY bs=4096
> >
> > The above copied an 80G drive to another in about 27 minutes. They were
> > windows installations.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > >
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