Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

[Christopher Stender <cstender@xxxxxxx>]

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.

Best regards,

Christopher
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