James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
I'd try to use an external USB drive and create a partition on it with
identical (or bigger) size of the original file system. Then just 'dd' the partition to that drive in a Linux rescue system. Hi Berny
yes, that was my first thought too, but the disk is 1.5Tb with only 100Gb used, so I was hoping to reduce the copy time. Having thought about it some more, using dd is probably the right way though.
I have run dd through gzip, to save space. Also, there's a sparse option with dd, which might reduce the image size. I have never used it though.
Space is not an issue, but I'd like to save time if I can. It looks like dd will do about 97Mb/s which makes 1.5Tb take at least a couple of hours. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org