On 01/14/2018 08:35 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Prepping for 42.2 to 42.3 update (yes, I'm actually going to try -- rather than clean install), I want to dump an image of my current 42.2 system to a spare 1T drive. I never do this (other than brute force dd images or shove the spare drive in an use parted to copy partitions).
What is the current favorite (FOSS) disk imaging utility being used. I'm not looking for long - HOWTO answers, just a project name to go look at.
(If I was just doing a clean install, I'd just use a new drive :)
There are a lot of possibilities to create an image of an (unmounted!) filesystem: FILESSYTEM='/dev/sda3' IMAGEFILE="/mnt/backup/image" cat "$FILESSYTEM" > "$IMAGE" or cp --copy-contents "$FILESSYTEM" "$IMAGE" or - I don't see anything wrong with it - the one which is made for this: dd bs=32M iflag=fullblock < "$FILESYSTEM" > "$IMAGE" Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org