On Sunday 29 April 2007 05:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-04-28 at 23:03 -0400, Bob S wrote:
of course they are, many, beginning by dd...
Are you telling me that dd will take a blank hard drive, format it and duplicate the partions ?
Yes.
Like Mondo rescue would?
No.
dd is dumb: if you take the image of a 100 GB disk and dd it to a new 200 GB disk, you loose 100 GB.
OK Carlos, many thanks for that. Didn't realize that dd could do that. Thought it just copied files and directories to be restored to existing partitions.
I am thinking when the drive is returned (they will have formatted it) That I will have to format it again to ext3, and build my partitions exactly as they were, and I am not sure how I can duplicate it exactly.
Does it matter?
Does it matter if a partition is a bit bigger or smaller, even if it is a diferent type? Linux doesn't care, it will work anyway. You can use the chance to change your partition types/sizes.
Welllll....You're right. It doesn't really matter if dd (or others) recreate the drive as the original was. I was worried that everything would be just run together in one big partition with no space between/after the copied partitions. So, what you are saying is just restore and everything will be taken care of automagically, but if I want to, I can change partition sizes and restore to the newly created partitions on an individual basis. ????? Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org