25 Aug
2014
25 Aug
'14
11:33
On 08/23/2014 12:39 PM, Dirk Gently wrote:
You can't copy a 100GB partition to a 150GB partition without WASTING 50 GB of space
IIRC I never said that the target is a partition - usually I just put it in a regular file: $ dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1G of=/some/where/sda1.img And nothing prevents me from loop-mounting it read-only to access the data inside the image. "Everything is a file." ;-) Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org