[nflug] entire hard drive copy

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

Thus spake eric:

> using knoppix or other cd running distro I can do the following to
> create an image of the hard drive, and the deploy the image to other
> computers doing the opposite correct?  And, would I have to use
> something like QTParted to resize if the image is too small or too large
> for the new hard drive?
>
> "tar cf - /dev/hda | ssh DestinationServer dd of=/my-directory/my-hda-image"

close

 	dd if=/dev/hda |ssh server "dd of=/dev/hdX"

or

 	dd if=/dev/hda |ssh server "dd of=/dir/image.raw"

>
> :) I know this has been talked about, but I don't have the email
> anymore, I bought a knoppix book but it's at home and doesn't talk about
> the resizing of the image to fit or grow on different size hard drives
> which I seem to remember being an issue?
>
> Thank Eric
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