-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2018-01-14 at 01:35 -0600, 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 :)
Plain dd :-) Actually, I'd use dd_rescue, or rather, dd_rhelp. If you want something fancier, then clonezilla, which uses its own boot image. But unless you need or wish something specific, use dd_rhelp, which is just a script to call dd that works arounds errors With dd, you can mount the image and see the files directly. Clonezilla can use compression, and will skip unused sectors, so that it uses less space. It might be faster. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpbIAwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XgCwCfbXlpnWqE9iOmVBXEfwIIkNIq 5uEAnA5YfMbexmubNVzW2UzjTPdNZRNl =E2Pp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org