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[Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher Stender skrev:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:33, James Knott wrote:
> > Christopher Stender wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:06, Anders Norrbring wrote:
> > > > I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to
> > > > another, but that only works when the target is equally big or
> > > > larger than the source.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a
> > > > remote disk that's only 16GB?
> > > >
> > > > Obviously dd won't work...
> > > You can use:
> > > dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > some_file.img.gz
> > >
> > > This compress the image on the fly.
> > And then, when you try to unzip it on a disk that's too small???
> >
> > Whether you zip it or not, you can't use an image to move to a
> > smaller disk.
>
> Well, I assumed that he wanted to do a backup only. Of course you can 
> not unzip a compressed disc image which is bigger than your hdd.


Exactly...
What I'm looking for is to move a working system to another computer 
with smaller disk...

Anders
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